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Destroyer of worlds : the deep history of the nuclear age, 1895-1965 / Frank Close

This history traces the evolution of nuclear science from the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 to the development of the thermonuclear bomb. It examines the work of international researchers and the geopolitical factors that directed the course of the atomic age.

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