Energía, radiactividad y explosiones en la era atómica
Where does much of the energy in the universe come from? Surely from what is hidden inside the atoms, from the reactions that take place in (and between) the tiny atomic nuclei that love, fight, love each other, as happens in stars, in nuclear reactors? and also in atomic bombs. But you have to learn to know and tame these reactions, understand the possible uses and consequences, since they are capable of destroying cities, fighting tumors or feeding factories. Through these pages parades nuclei, protons, neutrons, electrons, radioactive reactions and jumping isotopes , mergers and fissions. But there are also detective investigations, stories of the cowboy John Wayne, explosive bikinis, poisoned spies, imaginary bombs that target the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, reactors that misbehave. In short, a true biography of the atomic age that we have to live since the mid-twentieth century, tol...read more
