Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-three books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Dark Sun- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in History. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford, Guggenheim, MacArthur, and Alfred P. Sloan foundations, among others. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, and a host and correspondent for the public television series Frontline and American Experience. He lectures frequently in the United States and abroad. He lives near Half Moon Bay, California.
“No one writes better about nuclear history than Rhodes does, ably
combining a scholar’s attention to detail with a novelist’s
devotion to character and pacing.” —The Washington Post
“Rhodes explains both the science and the culture of the nuclear
age. He does so with the wisdom of the historian and the
morality of the ages.” —The Boston Globe
“Remarkable . . . Subtle . . . brims with intriguing anecdotes . .
. Rhodes speaks . . . with great eloquence.” —Los Angeles
Times
“Exciting . . . Cool and evenhanded . . . Rhodes owns this
territory, and there’s a lot of it to cover.”--Bloomberg
“[Rhodes] writes with remarkable confidence and clarity about these
terrible devices. . . He’s a rare writer who can explain why the
short half-life of tritium gas means that we no longer need to
worry about suitcase bombs stolen from the old Soviet Union.”--The
New York Times Book Review
“A triumph of information-gathering, narrative drive and
philosophizing . . . Rhodes’s reporting about averting calamity in
the former Soviet Union will resonate months and probably years
from now.”--The Denver Post
“Rhodes’s soaring and swooping eagle eye has noticed features in
the political landscape of the last 20 years that most of us have
overlooked. Few judgments have the authority and clarity
Rhodes can bring to bear as he sorts through the aftermath of the
age of the superpowers.”--The Santa Fe New Mexican
“Moving . . . Rhodes makes a good case for the optimistic
interpretation of this history—up to a point.”--San Francisco
Chronicle
“The Twilight of the Bombs is an apt conclusion to an epic
undertaking . . . At each step Rhodes offers fresh perspective on
the historical record.”--The Kansas City Star
“Urgent advice from a sage commentator.”--Baton Rouge Advocate
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