The First Conflict of Physics

An epic story of science and know-how on the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to construct the primary atomic weapons.

Wealthy in persona, motion, confrontation, and deception, 
The First Conflict of Physics is the primary absolutely realized common account of the race to construct humankind’s most harmful weapon. The guide attracts on declassified materials, akin to MI6’s Farm Corridor transcripts, coded soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers within the Venona mission, and interpretations by Russian students of paperwork from the soviet archives.

Jim Baggott weaves these threads right into a dramatic narrative that spans ten historic years, from the invention of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of ‘Joe-1,’ August 1949’s first Soviet atomic bomb take a look at. Why did physicists persist in growing the atomic bomb, regardless of the devastation that it may convey? Why, regardless of having a transparent head begin, did Hitler’s physicists fail? May the soviets have developed the bomb with out spies like Klaus Fuchs or Donald Maclean? Did the allies actually plot to assassinate a key member of the German bomb program? Did the physicists knowingly encourage the arms race? 
The First Conflict of Physics is a grand and horrifying story of scientific ambition, intrigue, and genius: a story barely plausible as fiction, which simply occurs to be historic reality.