Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the by Jim Ottaviani,Janine Johnston,Steve Lieber,Vince

By Jim Ottaviani,Janine Johnston,Steve Lieber,Vince Locke,Bernie Mireault,Jeff Parker,Jeffrey Jones

So, you have constantly desired to how to construct an atomic bomb? you are in good fortune: Jim Ottaviani is not just a comics writer...he additionally has a master's measure in nuclear engineering! yet although it isn't a whole home made guide (assembly required, and plutonium is well no longer included), Fallout will convey you up to the mark at the technology and politics of the 1st nuclear gadgets.

Like its significant other volumes, the point of interest of Fallout is at the scientists themselves -- specifically J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard, whose lives supply a cautionary story concerning the uneasy alliance among the army, the govt., and the beginnings of "big science."

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