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Title	:	Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
Author	:	Robert Jungk
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	October 21st 1970 by Mariner Books (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Science. History. Nonfiction. Physics. Biography. History Of Science. War

Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists

Robert Jungk

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 4.35 | 396 Users | 29 Reviews

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The thing I remember most about this book was the sense of Greek tragedy unfolding, as the Americans raced to finish the bomb, fearful that the Nazis would get there first. Meanwhile the scientists who were working for the Nazis dragged their feet as much as they could. As a reader you can see both sides but they could not see each other, and there is no hope that the ending will be different than what you know; you continue reading but with a strong sense of fatalism, more than any book I read I think.

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Original Title:	Heller als tausend Sonnen. Das Schicksal der Atomforscher
ISBN:	0156141507 (ISBN13: 9780156141505)
Edition Language:	English

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Did not like it and did not finish it.

Written in 1956 while the central players were still alive but after the "Atoms for Peace" conference and associated thawing of secrecy, the best non-fiction account I've read of the people behind the atomic and hydrogen bombs.

One of the New Scientist Top 25 Most Influential Popular Science Books (all of which I plan to read eventually), and mentioned in a recent read by Martin Gardner.Fascinating. Part history, part biography, part political commentary, part social commentary, and part melodrama ("But Teller was not made to march with the rank and file.") unkind to Oppenheimer, but then the times and history were unkind...an unkindness that unfortunately passed to his children, or at least his daughter.Jungk seemed

Utterly terrifying.'If the radiance of a thousand sunswere to burst into the sky,that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One -'...'I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds'- Bhagavad Gita(uttered by Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb, upon seeing the first ever nuclear mushroom cloud)

The title quote suggests that this book is more exciting than any novel and it is so very true. As exciting as it is scary. Detailed depiction of choices, circumstances and small incidents, all of which led to complete destroying of two cities, extinction of almost 300000 people and contamination by both atomic and thermonuclear weapon. And although author does not refrain himself from exploring personal stories of involved individuals it is more of the bigger picture book. Starting as a history

Great personality based look at the Manhattan Project, focusing particularly on the leadership of the Los Alamos site. Good stuff.

The book presents vivid descriptions of what happened behind the scenes during the development of the atomic bomb and presents an amazing story of how the scientific community first lobbied the U.S. government to build the bomb and then struggled to prevent them from using it. I haven't read a better account of the moral quandaries that scientists at that time faced. As with all good historical accounts, it remains incredibly relevant today.