"In the 1990s the world commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the first man-made chain reaction in Chicago, the fiftieth anniversary of the explosion in Hiroshima, and of the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer." "Well, this is a Hungarian version of the human quest of nuclear power, for fast information processing, for a scientific understanding of life, based mostly on interviews with the participants involved. The author knew most of these men and interviewed them personally; he journeyed to Chicago and Los Alamos, to Alamogordo and Chernobyl, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved