Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Richard Rhodes

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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 08/06/1996
Pages: 736
Weight: 1.9lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780684824147


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/01/1996 pg. 24
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 100
Publishers Weekly 06/03/1996

About the Author
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes.com.