Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
La Place de la Concorde Suisse by John McPhee  (14)
$10.20
|
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee (29)
|
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (55)
$13.60
|
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes  (45)
$12.24
|
Pieces of the Frame by John McPhee  (2)
$13.50
|
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Theodore B. Taylor was among the most ingenious engineers of the nuclear age. He created the most powerful and the smallest nuclear weapons of his time (his masterpiece, the Davy Crockett, weighed in at a svelte 50 pounds) and also spearheaded efforts to create a nuclear-powered spacecraft. But in his later years, Taylor became increasingly concerned that compact and powerful bombs could be easily built not just by nations employing experts such as himself, but by single individuals with modest technical ability and perseverance. McPhee tours American nuclear installations with Taylor, and we are treated to a grim, eye-opening account of just how close we are to witnessing terrorist attacks using homemade nuclear weaponry. The Curve of Binding Energy is compelling writing about an urgently important topic.
Wall Street Journal
Thoughtful dwellers in the nuclear age should ponder this book, as much for its intellectual excitement as for its warning.
See all Editorial Reviews
Theodore B. Taylor was among the most ingenious engineers of the nuclear age. He created the most powerful and the smallest nuclear weapons of his time (his masterpiece, the Davy Crockett, weighed in at a svelte 50 pounds) and also spearheaded efforts to create a nuclear-powered spacecraft. But in his later years, Taylor became increasingly concerned that compact and powerful bombs could be easily built not just by nations employing experts such as himself, but by single individuals with modest technical ability and perseverance. McPhee tours American nuclear installations with Taylor, and we are treated to a grim, eye-opening account of just how close we are to witnessing terrorist attacks using homemade nuclear weaponry. The Curve of Binding Energy is compelling writing about an urgently important topic.
Wall Street Journal
Thoughtful dwellers in the nuclear age should ponder this book, as much for its intellectual excitement as for its warning.
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
|