Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath A Nuclear Sky Patrick Marnham Vintage Αγγλικά Βιβλία History General Issues

The Terrifying First Use Of Nuclear Weapons Over Hiroshima And Nagasaki In August 1945 Was Most Controversial Act Warfare History Dramatically Ending Second World War But Ushering Age Mass Destruction Yet It Also Climax A Story That Extends Beyond Japan Washington: Culmination Decades Scientific Achievement Centuries Colonial Exploitation Snake Dance Is Account Journey Turned Into Quest To Discover How Humanity Reaches This Point Patrick Marnham Travels From Opulent Nineteenth-Century Palaces King Leopold Ii Belgium Built With Riches Plundered Congo Lethally Derelict Reactor Modern-Day Kinshasa He Follows Shipment Congolese Uranium Deserts New Mexico For Manhattan Project’s Secret Test Detonation Here Uncovers Legacies Robert Oppenheimer Aby Warburg Two ‘Mad Geniuses’ Who Confronted Devastating Power Twentieth-Century Science Very Different Ways Both Men Travelled Honoured Buiding Bomb Ancestor Have Enslaved Condemned Obscurity Confined Mental Hospital Regained His Sanity By Studying Rituals Native Americans Southwest Thousands Years Practiced Ritual \ Dance\ An Attempt Harness Lightening At Los Alamos Ultimate Playing God Realised Circle Closed Faced Catastrophe Fukushima Plant March 2011 Man Like Dancers Control Spanning Three Continents Civilisation Once Intrepid Intellectual Adventure Wake-Up Call Mankind Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm