Book · 1987 · Nonfiction
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks (Simon & Schuster) · 838 pages
★ 7.9 editorial score
At a London crossing in 1933 a physicist grasps how a chain reaction could work. Rhodes follows the idea to Los Alamos and Hiroshima, making the physics clear and the human cost unbearable.




