Istoriia atomnoi bomby - Maniia Khubert

The history of the first atomic bomb - a story that can be compared with a chain reaction of ideas, discoveries and foresight, a chain reaction of friendships, intrigues and envy of scientists, among whom were geniuses - and adventurers.
This is a fascinating story about a new era in the history of mankind - from the discovery of uranium to the first use of atomic energy. When the idea that energy could be extracted from the nucleus of an atom, no one could imagine what forces of nature would develop in a lump of self-heating substance the size of an orange, if compressed to a critical mass
! The best minds of mankind, the geniuses of science - they made discoveries at the cost of their own lives! In 1986, Henri Becquerel observed the strange glow of uranium. Marie Curie called this phenomenon radioactive. In the decades that followed, many physicists - including Max Planck and Albert Einstein - made a significant contribution to understanding processes,...