Doomsday men : the real Dr. Strangelove and the dream of the superweapon / P.D. Smith.

This is the untold story of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. In 1950, Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard made a dramatic announcement on American radio: science was on the verge of creating a doomsday bomb, a huge cobalt-clad H-bomb that would pollute the atmosphere with radioactivity and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Peter D. (Peter Daniel), 1965-
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Atomic bomb > History.
Scientists > Moral and ethical aspects.
Szilard, Leo.
Fermi, Enrico, > 1901-1954.
Kernwapens.
Physical Description:xxii, 552 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I. The Dream. Black day. Gift of destruction. Plutonium collector. Nature's secrets.
  • II. The Chemist's war. Prospero of poisons. Man who ended war. Einstein's open sesame.
  • III. The Dark heart of matter. Capital of physics. Inventor of all things. Faust and the physicists. Eureka! Wings over Europe.
  • IV. The Battle of the laboratories. 'Power beyond the dream of a madman'. Conceived in fear. Devil's work. Destroyer of worlds.
  • V. The End of dreams. Doomsday decade. Hell bomb. Khrushchev's monsters. Strangeloves.
  • Epilogue. 'Tragedy of mankind'.