The Curve of Binding Energy Format: Paperback

John Mcphee

ISBN 10: 0374515980 / ISBN 13: 9780374515980

Published by MacMillan Publishers, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Curve of Binding Energy Format: Paperback
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishers
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374515980
• ISBN 13: 9780374515980
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.