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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 — 21,309 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,179 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.30 — 60,560 ratings — published 2005
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 — 32,226 ratings — published 2013
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,783 ratings — published 1986
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 — 10,005 ratings — published 2020
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,006 ratings — published 2006
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.39 — 180,052 ratings — published 2012
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,858 ratings — published 1977
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.30 — 7,672 ratings — published 2014
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 — 840 ratings — published 2007
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,084 ratings — published 1995
The Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.54 — 25,997 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.71 — 598 ratings — published 2017
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 307,006 ratings — published 2009
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,555 ratings — published 2016
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.35 — 21,929 ratings — published 2016
Black Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,677 ratings — published 1965
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,601 ratings — published 2012
Alien Species Intervention (Species Intervention #6609, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,169 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 — 897 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 — 2,638 ratings — published 2005
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,097 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 — 513 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 3.74 — 375 ratings — published 2006
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,242 ratings — published 2023
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,419 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,135 ratings — published 2020
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.45 — 574 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 — 1,142 ratings — published 2005
The Atomic Weight of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,882 ratings — published 2016
The Bomb: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.66 — 143 ratings — published 2007
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,677 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 4.29 — 2,606 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 3.91 — 283 ratings — published 2002
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,954 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
Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.27 — 146 ratings — published
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,697 ratings — published 2025
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 — 2,944 ratings — published 2020
We of Nagasaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.33 — 33 ratings — published 1951
Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb (Kindle Single)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 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 4.05 — 750 ratings — published
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 294 ratings — published 2004
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 — 14,111 ratings — published 2019
Little Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.07 — 214 ratings — published
Grave of the Fireflies (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,468 ratings — published 1967
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 — 436 ratings — published 2020
“We may see a nuclear war before we die.”
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“Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked.”
― Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
― Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
