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Brighter than a Thousand Suns (book)

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The book studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the viewpoints of the atomic scientists. The book is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs.
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Later in life Robert Jungk no longer stood behind some portions of his book. In a foreword published in a 1990 book on Germany's wartime atomic research he appeared to accuse
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Physics and Propaganda: Werner Heisenberg's Foreign Lectures under National Socialism
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In 1956 the book was published in German by Alfred Scherz Verlag with the title
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Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
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Die Uran-maschine, Mythos, and Wirklichkeit der deutschen Atombombe
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translated it into English, and it was published in 1958 by
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Books about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Heller als tausend Sonnen. Das Schicksal der Atomforscher
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I wouldn't place any reliance on anything in that book
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Robert Jungk
Manhattan Project
Harcourt, Brace
Robert Jungk
Manhattan Project
German atomic bomb project
James Cleugh
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Bhagavad Gita
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Trinity nuclear test
talk page
WikiProject History
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Werner Heisenberg
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Richard G. Hewlett
Oscar E. Anderson
Manhattan Project
Leslie Groves
Alexander Sachs
German
Brighter than a thousand suns: a personal history of the atomic scientists
ISBN
978-0-15-614150-5
p.201
on JStor
Hewlett, Richard G.
The New World, 1939–1946

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