BOOKS BY RICHARD RHODES
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Sloan
Prologue: Deliveries
PART ONE
A Choice Between Worlds
1
‘A Smell of Nuclear Powder’
2
Diffusion
3
‘Material of Immense Value’
4
A Russian Connection
5
‘Super Lend-Lease’
6
Rendezvous
7
‘Mass Production’
8
Explosions
9
‘Provide the Bomb’
10
A Pretty Good Description
PART TWO
Hew Weapons Added to the Arsenals
11
Transitions
12
Peculiar Sovereignties
13
Changing History
14
F-1
15
Modus Vivendi
16
Sailing Near the Wind
17
Getting Down to Business
18
‘This Buck Rogers Universe’
19
First Lightning
20
‘Gung-ho for the Super’
PART THREE
Scorpions in a Bottle
21
Fresh Horrors
22
Lessons of Limited War
23
Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors
24
Mike
25
Powers of Retaliation
26
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
27
Scorpions in a Bottle
Epilogue: The Gradual Removal of Prejudices’
Acknowledgments
Sources
Abbreviations
Glossary of names
Bibliography
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