It takes the average reader 9 hours and 53 minutes to read The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949 by Jim Baggott
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An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the soviet archives. Jim Baggott weaves these threads into...
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949 by Jim Baggott is 584 pages long, and a total of 148,336 words.
This makes it 197% the length of the average book. It also has 181% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 30 minutes to read The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949 aloud.
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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