Richard Rhodes
Politically Savvy Pulitzer Prize winning author engages the audience with the fascinating history of the atomic bomb and the future risks of nuclear terrorism.
• Author or editor of twenty-three 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; an investigation of the roots of private violence, “Why They Kill”; a personal memoir, “A Hole in the World”; a biography, “John James Audubon”; and four novels.
• Host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series.
• Host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series.
"… the best, the richest, and the deepest description…that I have yet read…"
"…accomplishes what neither American nor Soviet political cultures could manage over a half-century of cold war--to find the flesh-and-blood human reality on both sides."
"…accomplishes what neither American nor Soviet political cultures could manage over a half-century of cold war--to find the flesh-and-blood human reality on both sides."
