The Making of the Atomic Bomb

How did a theoretical physics equation transform into the most devastating weapon in history? Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, unravels this terrifying and brilliant story. Journey from European labs to the secret mesas of Los Alamos, where geniuses like Oppenheimer raced against time—and their own consciences—to harness the power of the sun. This is the definitive, gripping account of the people and the project that forever altered the course of human history.