Atom Bomb


Hiroshima
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy
The Maniac
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
Apocalypse Then by Mike BogueAnatomy of a Museum by A. Kendra GreeneThere's Adventure in Atomic Energy by Julian  MayThe Anatomy of Negation by Edgar SaltusTrinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
An(Atom)ical Bomb
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Abhijit Naskar
As the tail on our back disappeared as we no longer had any use for it, nuclear weapons will also disappear once we realize, we no longer have any need for them. But no matter how much we daydream, it will never happen as some sort of grand geopolitical gesture of international collaboration - somebody has to take the first step - one nuclear-capable state has to take that first leap of bold faith and naive trust! The question is, who will it be? The first nuclear nation to abandon its nuclear w ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

Lydia Millet
Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.
Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

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