Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965 by Frank Close Groundswell Speaker 2024 CollinsISBN: 9780007232246Extent: 384 pages

CollinsISBN: 9780007232246Extent: 384 pages

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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age: 1895-1965 by Frank Close Groundswell Speaker 2024 CollinsISBN: 9780007232246Extent: 384 pagesFrom the award winning science writer, a new history of the development of nuclear power and the extraordinary minds behind it. Henry Becquerels accidental discovery, in Paris in 1896, of a faint smudge on a photographic plate sparked a chain of discoveries which would unleash the atomic age. Destroyer of Worlds is the story of how pursuit of this hidden source of nuclear power, which began innocently and collaboratively, was overwhelmed by the