How long does it take to read The Making of the Atomic Bomb?
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes takes about 16 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 15 minutes
A long haul
First published 1986. 886 pages, about 243,650 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and Von Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. source
Subjects: National Book Award Winner, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Atomic bomb, History, Atomic bomb -- History., Physique nucléaire
