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Dubbed the "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist who gained notoriety for the role he played in the Manhattan Project and the creation of the very first nuclear weapon. After the atomic bomb was developed, it was deployed by the United States to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These listens provide historical context about the man at the center of Christopher Nolan's biopic.
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 37 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....
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Beware limitations of the reader
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 37 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-09-16
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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Masters of Death
- The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust....
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Good book...but...
- By Disintegrator on 08-26-19
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Masters of Death
- The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-21-17
- Language: English
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Why They Kill
- The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age-old problem of why people kill.
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Why They Kill
- The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-16-24
- Language: English
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Hedy's Folly
- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signal....
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Like a 1930s People Magazine
- By Home Hunter 808 on 12-24-15
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Hedy's Folly
- The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-29-11
- Language: English
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....
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overall outstanding
- By Thomas on 06-25-09
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-26-07
- Language: English
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Energy
- A Human History
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond....
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No more accents, please!
- By Ned Gulley on 08-30-18
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Energy
- A Human History
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-29-18
- Language: English
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Scientist
- E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Few biologists in the long history of that science have been as productive, as groundbreaking, and as controversial as the Alabama-born Edward Osborne Wilson. At 91 years of age, he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field....
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A wonderful Biography, I feel like I know him.
- By Nebbie on 12-18-21
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Scientist
- E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-09-21
- Language: English
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically....
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Definitive Series ends with warnings but also Hope
- By Richard on 10-21-10
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-24-10
- Language: English
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
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The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....
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Abridged??
- By Delano on 04-17-13
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 03-01-10
- Language: English
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Hell and Good Company
- The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso....
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Awkward approach to a civil war
- By sabas on 01-17-17
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Hell and Good Company
- The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-03-15
- Language: English
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John James Audubon
- The Making of an American
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world....
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Excellent narration
- By Johnathan Matthew Ward on 09-10-24
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John James Audubon
- The Making of an American
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-19-24
- Language: English
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Deadly Feasts
- Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France....
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A very good intro to topic
- By Thomas Keul on 05-29-24
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Deadly Feasts
- Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
- Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-07-10
- Language: English
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