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The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

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With his customary reportorial brilliance, John McPhee has written the story of the life and career of Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist who has been one of the most inventive nuclear scientists of our time.

Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.

Language: English

Pages: 241

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: April 01, 2011

The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

4.2/5 ( ratings)

With his customary reportorial brilliance, John McPhee has written the story of the life and career of Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist who has been one of the most inventive nuclear scientists of our time.

Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.

Language: English

Pages: 241

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: April 01, 2011

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