num_pages: 160
description: Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.
language: English
title: Curve of Binding Energy
titlecomplete: Curve of Binding Energy
genres: Biography, Nature, Physics, Science, Nonfiction, American History, Terrorism, Biography Memoir, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 780
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: The Sciences
publisher: Ballantine Books