Nuclear Physics


The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
Nuclear Physics
Introductory Nuclear Physics
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Fundamentals in Nuclear Physics: From Nuclear Structure to Cosmology
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Ernest Rutherford
It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. [Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this dis ...more
Ernest Rutherford

Steven Magee
The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'. ...more
Steven Magee

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