from ewyatt

This work of narrative nonfiction weaves together three stories taking place during the WWII era - the work to put together and complete the Manhattan project, the incredible amount of espionage that was happening to share those secrets of the development of the atom bomb with the Soviet Union, a...

from KarenBall

The men saw a purple-gray mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, its top reaching three miles above their plane. The cloud boiled and writhed, they said, like a living thing. "Even more fearsome was the sight on the ground below"... the entire city, said Van Kirk, "looked like a pot of boiling bl...

from Whisper1

One of the best books I read thus far this year. Both a National Book Award Finalist and a Newbery Honor Book, the author did a tremendous amount of research regarding the amount of work, personalities and spying that occurred in the making of "The Bomb." As the author notes "A chemist in 1938, ...

from foggidawn

During World War II, one of the most decisive battles was fought, not on a battlefield, but in a laboratory. The race to build the atomic bomb was on, and pretty much all of the world's top physicists were working on the problem in one way or another, for one major power or another. In Los Alamos...

from KEFeeney

It is refreshing to read a historical account that is suspenseful, terrifying and thought-provoking. History is full of drama and the development of the A-bomb, and later the H-bomb, is full of moral, ethical, and philosophical questions. Sheinkin delivers the tale in a forthright manner that is ...