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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 — 20,889 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,718 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 — 58,043 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,289 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 — 31,800 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 — 9,746 ratings — published 2020
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,930 ratings — published 2006
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.38 — 176,292 ratings — published 2012
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,306 ratings — published 1977
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.29 — 7,602 ratings — published 2014
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,006 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 Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.54 — 25,431 ratings — published 2018
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 — 301,673 ratings — published 2009
Black Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,549 ratings — published 1965
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,496 ratings — published 2012
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,498 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 — 21,585 ratings — published 2016
Alien Species Intervention (Species Intervention #6609, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,164 ratings — published 2013
Echo (Species Intervention #6609, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.12 — 403 ratings — published 2012
Baby (Species Intervention #6609, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 898 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 — 2,597 ratings — published 2005
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,084 ratings — published 2011
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.18 — 478 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 — 373 ratings — published 2006
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,303 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,905 ratings — published 2020
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.44 — 569 ratings — published 2020
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima – The Dramatic True Story of the Atomic Bombing that Ended WWII and Defined the 20th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,116 ratings — published 2005
The Atomic Weight of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,670 ratings — published 2016
The Bomb: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.66 — 142 ratings — published 2007
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,473 ratings — published 2008
Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,575 ratings — published 2016
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: The Classic Apocalyptic Novel of Courage, Survival, and Determination After Nuclear Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,390 ratings — published 1959
Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.98 — 89 ratings — published 2003
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.98 — 278 ratings — published 1995
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,866 ratings — published 2020
We of Nagasaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.34 — 32 ratings — published 1951
Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb (Kindle Single)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.05 — 820 ratings — published
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 713 ratings — published
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 287 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 — 2,162 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 3.88 — 13,734 ratings — published 2019
Little Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 211 ratings — published
Grave of the Fireflies (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,154 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 — 14,424 ratings — published 2013
140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan’s Last Chance to Avert Armageddon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.39 — 404 ratings — published 2020
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,002 ratings — published 2020
“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
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“The published images of Hiroshima’s demolished landscape gravely undersold the reality of atomic aftermath.”
― 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
