Richard
Rhodes, Author, "The Making
of the Atomic Bomb" (2m
24s)
Richard Rhodes is the author of eighteen 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; Dark Sun:The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer
Prize in History; Nuclear Renewal:Common
Sense About Energy; and, most recently, Why They Kill:The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist.He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including
grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur
Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and
correspondent for documentaries on nuclear issues on public television's
Frontline and American Experience series.A
Kansas native and a 1959 honors graduate of Yale University, he lives in rural
Connecticut.
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