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Nuclear Physics Books
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,289 ratings — published 1986
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,089 ratings — published 2019
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,372 ratings — published 2005
Nuclear Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.71 — 158 ratings — published 2009
Introductory Nuclear Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.77 — 207 ratings — published 1987
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.28 — 341 ratings — published 2005
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,808 ratings — published 2022
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,179 ratings — published 1995
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,165 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 199,460 ratings — published 2016
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.71 — 254 ratings — published 2013
Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.51 — 156 ratings — published 2011
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,226 ratings — published 2025
Giant of the Atom Ernest Rutherford (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1962
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 444 ratings — published 2020
The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (The Shortest History Series)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 273 ratings — published
The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,420 ratings — published 2014
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,420 ratings — published 2014
Einstein's Genius Club: The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.72 — 87 ratings — published 2011
Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,286 ratings — published 2004
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.08 — 754 ratings — published 2017
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,800 ratings — published 2022
A Field Guide to Radiation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.78 — 77 ratings — published 2012
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.92 — 845 ratings — published 2007
Earth in Flames: How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.06 — 550 ratings — published 2024
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.15 — 195 ratings — published 2019
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.53 — 250 ratings — published
Nuclear Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 172 ratings — published 2015
The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.01 — 681 ratings — published 2011
Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,526 ratings — published -340
English Conversation Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.83 — 598 ratings — published 2001
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,670 ratings — published 2014
White Holes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,341 ratings — published 2023
The Maniac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,775 ratings — published 2023
The World According to Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,575 ratings — published 2020
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,147 ratings — published 2024
Niels Bohr: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Physicists)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 143 ratings — published
2000 English Phrases & Sentences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.76 — 34 ratings — published 2010
S Chand B.Sc. Practical Physics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.54 — 28 ratings — published
Werner Heisenberg: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Physicists)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.24 — 165 ratings — published
Theoretical nuclear physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1974
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.13 — 738 ratings — published 2010
Question 7 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,897 ratings — published 2023
Higgs - The Invention and Discovery of the ‘God Particle’ (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 3.84 — 699 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,982 ratings — published 2014
Nuclear Physics for Babies (Baby University)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.23 — 201 ratings — published
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.16 — 210,526 ratings — published 2007
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 304 ratings — published 2001
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-physics)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,415 ratings — published 1988
“Humanitarian Nuclear Physics (The Sonnet)
One nuclear warhead contains 9 lbs of plutonium,
Which can electrify 2000 households for a year.
Yet you use that majestic power of atom as pawn,
In your stoneage geopolitical games of fear.
When monkeys crack the mystery of the atom,
Without developing any civilized purpose,
They go blind with the madness of power,
Atom bombs become newage arrows and spears.
Hypnotized by the mindless pursuit of "could",
Apes rarely ever stop to question if they should!
What good is such science without conscience,
What good is a scientist without a vision for good!
Either atom bombs will be obsolete as bow and arrow,
Or humankind will go extinct like dinosaurs tomorrow.”
― Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
One nuclear warhead contains 9 lbs of plutonium,
Which can electrify 2000 households for a year.
Yet you use that majestic power of atom as pawn,
In your stoneage geopolitical games of fear.
When monkeys crack the mystery of the atom,
Without developing any civilized purpose,
They go blind with the madness of power,
Atom bombs become newage arrows and spears.
Hypnotized by the mindless pursuit of "could",
Apes rarely ever stop to question if they should!
What good is such science without conscience,
What good is a scientist without a vision for good!
Either atom bombs will be obsolete as bow and arrow,
Or humankind will go extinct like dinosaurs tomorrow.”
― Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.”
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