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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut review – the dark side of science | Fiction | The Guardian

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An extraordinary ‘non-fiction novel’ weaves a web of associations between the founders of quantum mechanics and the evils of two world wars

‘The atoms that tore Hiroshima and Nagasaki apart were split not by the greasy fingers of a general, but by a group of physicists armed with a fistful of equations’ Photograph: AFP View image in fullscreen ‘The atoms that tore Hiroshima and Nagasaki apart were split not by the greasy fingers of a general, but by a group of physicists armed with a fistful of equations’ Photograph: AFP Book of the day Fiction This article is more than 5 years old Review When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut review – the dark side of science This article is more than 5 years old An extraordina

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