Buy this book on-line SHEPLEY, JAMES & BLAIR Jnr, CLAY: : The Hydrogen Bomb: The Men,The Menace,The MechanismLONDON.JARROLDS,1955.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Grey+ white illustrated upper wrap,spine/ backstrip with red+black text/letters,rear wrap b/w photograph of bomb detonation. Minimal shelf-wear to bottom edges,top edges negligibly creased with some light bumping,closed nicks and chipping to head of spine/backstrip with top corners minisculely rubbed.Parallel abrasions/ rubbing to lower third of board's vertical edges affecting approx 1" of dw/dj to rear board and same to front board's edge but also affecting the dw/dj+cloth.Top edge dust-soiled and darkened with light spotting,fore-edge considerably less aged and darkened and also lightly spotted; contents bright,tight and generally very clean for book's age.Bright,clean, publisher's original red cloth boards with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and lightly off-set foxing to plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+13-216pp includes b/w photographic frntis,title page,contents+ illustrations lists,authors' foreword,4 Pts covering 22 chapters,11 b/w contemporary photographs and an index.
This book is a gripping account of what led up to the making of the most fearsome weapon of war that mankind has ever devised.Up to 1949 America and her Allies were happy and secure in the knowledge that they possessed the all-powerful Atom bomb,but in August of that year their serenity was rudely shattered by information that Russia had exploded a bomb six times more powerful than those of Hiroshima or Bikini.The authors reveal how America felt herself teetering on the thin edge of national disaster,how one man's
"lack of enthusiasm" almost jeopardised the lives of countless millions,how a President was nearly impeached by his own party and how a brilliant team of scientists raced to save Western civilization.Here are the grim facts that few people know.Here is the whole never-told-before story giving chapter and verse of what went on behind the scenes of the Atomic Energy Commission.Its revelations are sensational and of vital importance to all thinking people.See also rja968.
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