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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
History of Science
Rhodes's Pulitzer-winning narrative follows the physics, personalities, and politics that produced the first nuclear weapon, from Rutherford's lab through Trinity. Karpathy rated it five stars on Goodreads, noting the exponential jump in destructive energy density—from chemical to nuclear—as a recurring mental model for discontinuous technological leaps.
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Andrej Karpathy
Physics / history-of-science stack — Karpathy's five-star Goodreads read; the Manhattan Project as a case study in discontinuous exponential jumps in capability.
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Chris Dixon
“It really is as good as advertised. For me, the best book I read this year both in terms of learning and enjoyment.”