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- What unique role uranium plays in modern politics, warfare and power
- How the U.S. developed the first atomic bomb
- How powerful nations try to monitor the uranium trade, and mostly fail
Why you should read Uranium
This is a great story about a very special rock which was formed millions of years ago, and continues to breed a deadly form of energy. Tom Zoellner’s factual book about uranium reads like a gripping novel. He breathes vigorous life into a saga that could have been a dry political and geological tale. His beautifully crafted story puts uranium into its complex context as a key protagonist on the world stage. Zoellner’s reporting ranges from the Congo to Nazi Germany to the war in Iran, with vivid information at every turn. getAbstract found this meticulously researched book exceptionally interesting, and recommends it to anyone interested in discovering how society entered the atomic age and how it is muddling through.
About the Author
Tom Zoellner wrote The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire, an American Library Association “Notable Book,” and he co-authored An Ordinary Man. He is a former Men’s Health contributing editor and San Francisco Chronicle reporter.
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This summary is inaccurate. Uranium is an element, it is sometimes found in petrified wood but it certainly isn't made of leaves. Also in the PDF it claims the plutonium in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over nagasaki weighed less than a third of a penny. This is the quantity of matter that converted into energy, not the quantity of plutonium in the bomb (6.2 kilos).
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