The curve of binding energy
By: [by] John McPhee.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Taylor, Theodore B., 1925-; Atomic bomb; Nuclear industry -- Security measures
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.
Notes: "Originally appeared in the New Yorker."