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Atomic Age Books
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,937 ratings — published 2014
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.31 — 60,206 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,723 ratings — published 1986
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,073 ratings — published 1995
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,848 ratings — published 1946
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.36 — 66,842 ratings — published 2019
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,860 ratings — published 2016
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,751 ratings — published 2013
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.16 — 288,604 ratings — published 1950
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,630 ratings — published 2005
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,174 ratings — published 2013
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.36 — 50,245 ratings — published 2024
The Maniac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.33 — 28,176 ratings — published 2023
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.14 — 804 ratings — published 2020
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,072 ratings — published 2011
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.02 — 234 ratings — published 2018
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,142 ratings — published 2017
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.88 — 521 ratings — published 2014
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,293 ratings — published 2017
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,609 ratings — published 2009
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.28 — 624 ratings — published 1999
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.28 — 339 ratings — published 2005
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima – The Dramatic True Story of the Atomic Bombing that Ended WWII and Defined the 20th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,140 ratings — published 2005
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.91 — 839 ratings — published 2007
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.26 — 219,584 ratings — published 1985
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,450 ratings — published 2009
A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons: Their Design, Operation, Delivery, and Deployment (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.46 — 28 ratings — published
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age – The Anti-Nuclear President, the Bomb Decision, and Cold War History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.11 — 168 ratings — published 2025
Peace or Atomic War? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 1972
In the Shadow of the Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.79 — 24 ratings — published 2000
Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War In Fiction, 1895-1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 1987
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.03 — 102 ratings — published
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.15 — 255 ratings — published 2021
Uranium Frenzy: Saga of the Nuclear West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.78 — 78 ratings — published 2002
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West (Volume 24) (The Oklahoma Western Biographies)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.23 — 13 ratings — published 2009
The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico (America’s Public Lands)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.45 — 22 ratings — published
Level 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,970 ratings — published 1959
Lot and Lot's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.77 — 128 ratings — published 1954
The Night of the Long Knives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.59 — 635 ratings — published 1960
Shadow on the Hearth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.57 — 74 ratings — published 1950
Greener Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.58 — 355 ratings — published 1947
Tomorrow! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.81 — 264 ratings — published 1954
Damnation Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.56 — 5,794 ratings — published 1968
The Death of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,277 ratings — published 1956
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,244 ratings — published 1963
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.00 — 136,948 ratings — published 1954
Earth Abides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.94 — 34,640 ratings — published 1949
Fail-Safe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,057 ratings — published 1962
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 4.01 — 118,582 ratings — published 1951
The Long Tomorrow (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as atomic-age)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,856 ratings — published 1955
“We know from the destructive weapons of the atomic age that either we permanently end war or it will most certainly permanently end us.”
― Reveille for Radicals
― Reveille for Radicals
“The only condition more appalling, less practical, than world government is the lack of it in this atomic age. Most of the scientists who produced the bomb admit that. Nationalism and the split atom cannot coexist in the planet.”
― The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
― The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters
