Stan, age 13, standing 5’ 4” and weighing an emaciated 98 pounds, saved both boys by walking into a police station and reporting to the authorities the conditions under which they lived. When Rhodes was ten their father remarried a woman who starved, exploited, and abused the children. Following his mother's suicide on July 25, 1938, Rhodes, along with his older (by a year and a half) brother Stanley, was raised in and around Kansas City, Missouri, by his father, a railroad boilermaker with a third-grade education. Richard Rhodes was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1937. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. July 4, 1937) is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning " The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (1986), and most recently, "Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race" (2007).
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