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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49

by Jim Baggott

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“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

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“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
― George Gissing

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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
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