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Atomic Bomb Books
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Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 20,679 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,362 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,305 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,032 ratings — published 1986
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.73 — 31,527 ratings — published 2013
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,602 ratings — published 2020
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,890 ratings — published 2006
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.38 — 174,168 ratings — published 2012
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,013 ratings — published 1977
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.29 — 7,552 ratings — published 2014
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,974 ratings — published 1995
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.91 — 835 ratings — published 2007
The Secret Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.71 — 596 ratings — published 2017
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 298,673 ratings — published 2009
The Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.54 — 25,144 ratings — published 2018
Black Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,474 ratings — published 1965
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,462 ratings — published 2012
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,477 ratings — published 2016
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,403 ratings — published 2016
Alien Species Intervention (Species Intervention #6609, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,159 ratings — published 2013
Echo (Species Intervention #6609, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.12 — 402 ratings — published 2012
Baby (Species Intervention #6609, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 895 ratings — published 2012
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,562 ratings — published 2005
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,071 ratings — published 2011
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.19 — 461 ratings — published 1961
First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.73 — 370 ratings — published 2006
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,243 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,777 ratings — published 2020
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.45 — 560 ratings — published 2020
The Atomic Weight of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,611 ratings — published 2016
The Bomb: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.66 — 141 ratings — published 2007
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,339 ratings — published 2008
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.90 — 278 ratings — published 2002
Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,028 ratings — published 1959
Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.95 — 86 ratings — published 2003
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.98 — 276 ratings — published 1995
We of Nagasaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.37 — 30 ratings — published 1951
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.05 — 691 ratings — published
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 281 ratings — published 2004
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,111 ratings — published 2023
The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,486 ratings — published 2019
Little Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 209 ratings — published
Grave of the Fireflies (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,965 ratings — published 1967
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,253 ratings — published 2013
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 992 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,216,920 ratings — published 2011
Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.59 — 174 ratings — published 2018
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,087 ratings — published 2005
The Last Cherry Blossom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,032 ratings — published 2016
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.29 — 631 ratings — published 1956
“I think that what has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been a deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory,” [Hersey] said in 1986, in a rare interview. “The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”
― Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
― Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
“Even Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, was a believer of Bhagwat Gita and quoted the Shloka 32 (Chapter 11) that actual meant, "Time I am; destroyer of the worlds." whereas he mis-translated TIME as DEATH.”
― Krishna Crux
― Krishna Crux
