书籍介绍
作者理查德•罗兹(Richard Rhodes)将原子弹的问世过程置于迅速变化的政治社会文化背景中,让这一过程得以实现的诸多人物栩栩如生地呈现在读者面前。全书厚达883页,分为三篇。第一篇“深刻而必然的真理”,讲述原子物理学发展历史;第二篇“一种特殊的主权”主要讲述了原子弹的复杂研制过程,曼哈顿计划的具体实施;第三篇“生与死”则细述了美军在广岛和长崎投掷原子弹后所产生的影响,以及科学家们对原子弹的态度变化。
AI导读
核心看点
- 普利策奖巨著,全景式还原原子弹从理论到实战的完整历史。
- 深入剖析曼哈顿计划,揭示其作为国家级超级科研项目的运作细节。
- 将科学突破置于政治社会背景,生动刻画科学家群像与道德困境。
适合谁读
- 对二战历史、核物理发展及科学史感兴趣的深度阅读爱好者。
- 关注大型项目管理、组织行为学及商业案例的管理者与实践者。
- 希望了解奥本海默等科学家生平及其时代背景的影视观众。
读前提醒
- 全书篇幅厚重,建议耐心阅读,部分背景章节可酌情跳过。
- 人物众多且关系复杂,建议结合目录梳理科学家间的师承脉络。
- 若仅关注工程实施,可直接从第二篇‘一种特殊的主权’开始读起。
读者共识
- 公认的经典之作,史料详实,人物刻画生动,普利策奖实至名归。
- 曼哈顿计划是管理学经典案例,其智力与工程管理经验极具借鉴意义。
- 部分读者认为篇幅冗长、翻译生硬,阅读门槛较高,需做好心理准备。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed his first glass-walled skyscraper in postwar Berlin, Yehudi Menuhin made his precocious debut, with Einstein in the audience to applaud him. George Grosz sorted among his years of savage observation on Berlin's wide boulevards and published Ecce Homo. Vladimir Nabok"
- "In the summer of 1922 the rate of exchange in Germany sank to 400 marks to the dollar. It fell to 7,000 to the dollar at the beginning of January 1923, the truly terrible year. One hundred sixty thousand in July. One million in August and 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar on November 23, 1923, when a"
- "He was convinced in the mid-1920s chat "the parliamentary form of democracy would not have a very long life in Germany" but he "thought that it might survive one or two generations." Within five years he understood otherwise. I reached the conclusion something would go wrong in Germany in 1930.” Hja"
- "Michael Polanyi, a chemist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes with a family to consider-viewed the German political scene optimistically, like many others in Germany at the time. They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening, "Szilard held no such sanguine"
- "Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. On the night of February 27 a Nazi gang directed by the head of the Berlin SA, Hitler's private army, set fire to the imposing chambers of the Reichstag. The building was totally destroyed. Hitler blamed the arson onthe Communists"
- "Psychometricians have closely questioned American scientists of this first modern generation (1920s), curious to know what kind of men they were-there were few women among them-and from what backgrounds they emerged. Small liberal arts colleges in the Middle West and on the Pacific coast, one study "
- "Oppenheimer arrived (in Berkeley) in a battered gray Chrysler in the late summer of 1929 from another holiday... He put up at the faculty club and the two opposite numbers, he and Lawrence, became close friends. Oppenheimer saw unbelievable vitality and love of life" in Lawrence. "Work all day, run "
- "composite portrait of the American scientist in his prime: "He is likely to have been a sickly child or to have lost a parent at an early age. He has a very high I.Q. and in boy hood began to do a great deal of reading. He tended to feel lonely and"different and to be shy and aloof from his classmat"
作者简介
作者:理查德·罗兹(Richard Rhodes)
美国作家、记者、历史学家,1937
年出生于美国堪萨斯城,1959 年毕业于耶鲁大学。他写过二十几本书,
对核武器史的关注是其中引人瞩目的主题。继《原子弹秘史》之后,他还
写了《黑太阳:氢弹秘史》《愚蠢的兵工厂:核武器军备竞赛秘史》《核弹
之暮光》,堪称“核武器秘史四部曲”。《原子弹秘史》让他赢得了“普利
策奖”“美国国家图书奖”等荣誉,被译成十几种语言出版。他关于纳粹
杀人机器盖世太保特别行动队的编年史《死亡之主》,以及关于朊病毒与
疯牛病、库鲁病等的书《致命的盛宴》,讲述的依然是杀戮的故事。另外,
他还著有传记《约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦》,回忆录《世界之孔》。
目录
第一篇 深刻而必然的真理
第一章 镜花水月
第二章 原子和空隙
第三章 双重意识
第四章 长长的墓穴挖好了
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