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1. 1. Destroyer Of Worlds

   

   A concise, spoiler-free account of the seventy-year rise of nuclear physics, beginning with Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity and following scientists such as Ernest Rutherford, Enrico Fermi, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Edward Teller. Frank Close traces how curiosity-driven experiments unlocked the atom and led to both transformative technologies and the creation of atomic and hydrogen weapons, while examining the scientific, moral, and political questions that followed.

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