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Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007). He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
An American Boyhood
1990
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
2007
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
1995
The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
1997
A Human History
2018
A Year in the Life of an American Farmer
1989
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
2011
The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
2015
Advice and Reflections
1995
Words To Remember
1967
The Making of an American
2004
An Erotic Odyssey
1992
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
2002
E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
1999
1970
1986
1000
Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
2010
1973
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems A
1999
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
1999