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Steven Shapin: Luis Alvarez and the Bomb, 25 June 2026

Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs 
by Alec Nevala-Lee.
Norton, 338 pp., £23.99, July 2025, 978 1 324 07510 3
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... whether there were as yet undiscovered chambers in the Egyptian pyramids (there weren’t). Alec Nevala-Lee is an American writer of science fiction, detective thrillers and biographies, whose previous work includes a life of Buckminster Fuller. He likes to write about creative risk-takers. Alvarez is a natural subject for him.Oppenheimer and ...

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