Frank Close

Praise for Destroyer of Worlds

Destroyer of Worlds is a cogent, detailed account of one of history's brightest and darkest chapters, in which amazing scientific insights into atoms and their nuclei coincided with fascism and world-w ...

Matt Strassler, author of Waves in an Impossible Sea

Kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable, Destroyer of Worlds follows dozens of astounding scientific discoveries that led to the development of nuclear weapons. In powerful, plain language, Clo ...

Patchen Barss, author of The Impossible Man

If you enjoyed the movie “Oppenheimer,” you will be thrilled by Frank Close’s Destroyer of Worlds. With a knack for explaining the history of nuclear energy in simple terms, Close takes us to the “r ...

Robert Cahn, co-author of Grace in All Simplicity

Destroyer of Worlds is a cogent, detailed account of one of history's brightest and darkest chapters, in which amazing scientific insights into atoms and their nuclei coincided with fascism and world-w ...

Matt Strassler, author of Waves in an Impossible Sea

Kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable, Destroyer of Worlds follows dozens of astounding scientific discoveries that led to the development of nuclear weapons. In powerful, plain language, Clo ...

Patchen Barss, author of The Impossible Man

If you enjoyed the movie “Oppenheimer,” you will be thrilled by Frank Close’s Destroyer of Worlds. With a knack for explaining the history of nuclear energy in simple terms, Close takes us to the “r ...

Robert Cahn, co-author of Grace in All Simplicity

Destroyer of Worlds is a cogent, detailed account of one of history's brightest and darkest chapters, in which amazing scientific insights into atoms and their nuclei coincided with fascism and world-w ...

Matt Strassler, author of Waves in an Impossible Sea

Kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable, Destroyer of Worlds follows dozens of astounding scientific discoveries that led to the development of nuclear weapons. In powerful, plain language, Clo ...

Patchen Barss, author of The Impossible Man

If you enjoyed the movie “Oppenheimer,” you will be thrilled by Frank Close’s Destroyer of Worlds. With a knack for explaining the history of nuclear energy in simple terms, Close takes us to the “r ...

Robert Cahn, co-author of Grace in All Simplicity

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