Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own.
He lives in Princeton, New Jersey..
In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World.
Mc Phee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977.
Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science.
Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming Into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011).
His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965.
About the Author: John Mc Phee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University.
Mc Phee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.
Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own
