by Richard Rhodes.

1995.

Book club edition.

6 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches.

731 pages.

The author, born in 1937, won the Pulitzer Prize for this book.

Inside the front cover are two personal color snapshot photographs, pasted onto the pages.  

*  The notation on one reads: Pauel Sorkison, Director, Chernobyl.  

*  The notation on the other photos reads: Moscow Oct. 9-18, 1985 / Mendeleyev 75th Anniversary / Noe p. 379 / Oct. 12, 1995 /              Kutcharo Museum (?).

*  Mendeleyev refers to the Russian chemist (1834-1907) who established the periodic tables.

*  Pauel Sorkison is a name I could not find in an internet search.

This book comes from the estate of Douglas C. Neckers, a chemistry professor at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, known internationally.  Likely these are his personal photos from a research trip.

Sample of the contents:

*  A Smell of Nuclear Power

*  Diffusion

*  A Russian Connection

*  Mass Production

*  Explosions

*  Peculiar Sovereignties

*  Sailing Near the Wind

*  This Buck Rogers Universe'

*  First Lightning

*  Fresh Horrors

*  Lessons of a Limited War

*  In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer

*  Scorpions in a Bottle

Thank you!