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Title: American Prometheus
Post by: Smoke Break on January 04, 2007, 01:25:40 PM

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780375726262&itm=1

 Great book so far, as interesting as it is informative; it should be since it took them 25 years to compile info and write it. I was surprised by how little I had been taught about any of the events leading up to the bomb and thereafter.

Title: Re: American Prometheus
Post by: 7even on January 04, 2007, 01:33:35 PM

wasn't prometheus the demigod who showed people how to make fire and got punished severly for that .. how is that linked to that book? maybe cause he showed people how to make atom bombs. cool.

Title: Re: American Prometheus
Post by: Smoke Break on January 04, 2007, 01:34:32 PM

lol yup you nailed it. He also got in trouble for his ties to communism, I just started getting into that last night.