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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780425207895
In 1898, Marie Curie first described a phenomenon she called
“radioactivity.” A half-century later, two physicists would stand
before dawn in the New Mexico desert, slathering themselves with
sunscreen-and fearing that the imminent test detonation might
ignite Earth’s atmosphere in a cataclysmic chain reaction and
transform our planet into a burning star.
This is the epic story of Curie’s quest to unlock the secrets of
the material world; of the scientists-Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein,
Oppenheimer-who built upon her work; of the day the first weapon of
mass destruction dropped on Hiroshima, bringing both sudden terror
and sudden peace, and of the new era of global uncertainty that
emerged in its wake. With the clarity of great science writing, the
vividness of historical narrative and the insight of biography,
Before the Fallout is an unforgettable and sweeping account
of the scientific discovery that changed the world.
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