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Rhodes is/was very good on the details of the Manhattan Project, but for a very personal view of the daily trials and tribulations of life at Los Alamos, read 109 East Palace,by Jennet Conant (2005). For a closer view of the scientists themselves, read Pandora's Keepers, by Brian Vandemark (2003). For a heart-breaking story of the fundamental process, nuclear fission, read Lise Meitner - A Life in Physics, by Ruth Sime (1996), a riveting story of how Meitner was deprived of sharing the Nobel Prize with her two 'assistants', Hahn and Strassman - she was a woman and she was Jewish.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
blandamer, October 11, 2006
Rhodes is/was very good on the details of the Manhattan Project, but for a very personal view of the daily trials and tribulations of life at Los Alamos, read 109 East Palace,by Jennet Conant (2005). For a closer view of the scientists themselves, read Pandora's Keepers, by Brian Vandemark (2003). For a heart-breaking story of the fundamental process, nuclear fission, read Lise Meitner - A Life in Physics, by Ruth Sime (1996), a riveting story of how Meitner was deprived of sharing the Nobel Prize with her two 'assistants', Hahn and Strassman - she was a woman and she was Jewish.(10 of 23 readers found this comment helpful)