The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

What Americans totally fail to understand is that their weapons of mass destruction are just as much a problem as are those of Iraq.”

“It was the insistence on unconditional surrender that was the root of all evil,”

The great cities of the dead, in numbers, remain Verdun, Leningrad and Auschwitz. But at Hiroshima and Nagasaki the “city of the dead” is finally transformed from a metaphor into a literal reality.