Berkley Publishing Group
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — June 2007
Before the fallout; from Marie Curie to Hiroshima.
Preston, Diana.
Berkley Publishing Group, ©2005 400 p. $15.00 Q175
0-425-20789-7
Preston describes the development of nuclear weapons, beginning with Marie Curie's work with radioactivity at the turn of the twentieth century and discussing the advances of subsequent scientists like Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein, and Oppenheimer. She traces how scientific discoveries were transformed into the atomic weapon first used on Hiroshima. Preston is the author of other books, including Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
