15 Facts About Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes was born on July 4,1937 and is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and most recently, Energy: A Human History.

Richard Rhodes frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects, including testimony to the US Senate on nuclear energy.

Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1937.

Richard Rhodes became a member of the board of trustees in 1991.

Richard Rhodes wrote about his childhood in A Hole in the World.

Richard Rhodes was admitted to Yale University with a full scholarship and graduated with honors in 1959, a member of Manuscript Society.

Richard Rhodes has published 23 books as well as numerous articles for national magazines, and wrote a play that is based on the historic 1986 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Richard Rhodes is the father of two children and is a grandfather.

Richard Rhodes came to national prominence with his 1986 book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a narrative of the history of the people and events during World War II from the discoveries leading to the science of nuclear fission in the 1930s, through the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In 1992, Richard Rhodes followed it up by compiling, editing, and writing the introduction to an annotated version of The Los Alamos Primer, by Manhattan Project scientist Robert Serber.

In 1993, Richard Rhodes published Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense about Energy detailing the history of the nuclear power industry in the United States, and future promises of nuclear power.

Richard Rhodes published a sequel to The Making of the Atomic Bomb in 1995, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which told the story of the atomic espionage during World War II, the debates over whether the hydrogen bomb ought to be produced, and the eventual creation of the bomb and its consequences for the arms race.

In 1997 Richard Rhodes appeared in the UK Channel 4 TV series Equinox episode "A Very British Bomb" about the UK's efforts after the war to develop its own nuclear weapons after collaboration with the US had been halted by the 1946 MacMahon Act.

In 2007, Richard Rhodes published Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, a chronicle of the arms buildups during the Cold War, especially focusing on Mikhail Gorbachev and the Reagan administration.

Richard Rhodes' 1997 book Deadly Feasts is a work of verity concerning transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, prions, and the career of Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.