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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 — 21,708 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,876 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,804 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,331 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 — 32,634 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 — 10,218 ratings — published 2020
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,080 ratings — published 2006
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.39 — 184,208 ratings — published 2012
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,415 ratings — published 1977
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.30 — 7,769 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 3.92 — 845 ratings — published 2007
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,188 ratings — published 1995
The Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.54 — 26,739 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.71 — 599 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 — 313,663 ratings — published 2009
Black Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,813 ratings — published 1965
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,674 ratings — published 2012
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,589 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 — 22,256 ratings — published 2016
Alien Species Intervention (Species Intervention #6609, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,174 ratings — published 2013
Echo (Species Intervention #6609, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.12 — 404 ratings — published 2012
Baby (Species Intervention #6609, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.82 — 902 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 — 2,676 ratings — published 2005
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,173 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 — 547 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 — 379 ratings — published 2006
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,521 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,352 ratings — published 2020
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.45 — 577 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 — 1,172 ratings — published 2005
The Atomic Weight of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,034 ratings — published 2016
The Bomb: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.67 — 144 ratings — published 2007
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,892 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 — 2,655 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 — 287 ratings — published 2002
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,711 ratings — published 1959
Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.97 — 92 ratings — published 2003
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 283 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 — 3,037 ratings — published 2020
We of Nagasaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.35 — 34 ratings — published 1951
Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb (Kindle Single)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.06 — 821 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 — 777 ratings — published
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.83 — 297 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 — 2,342 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 3.87 — 14,477 ratings — published 2019
Little Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.07 — 218 ratings — published
Grave of the Fireflies (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,821 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 — 455 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 — 1,042 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,510 ratings — published 2011
“If you think atomic explosions in Asia wouldn't affect Americans, consider this. A study published in Scientific American in 2010 looked at the probable impact of a "small" nuclear war, one in which India and Pakistan each dropped fifty atomic bombs. The scientists concluded that the explosions would ignite massive firestorms, sending enormous amounts of dust and smoke into the atmosphere. This would block some of the sun's light from reaching the earth, making the planet colder and darker - for about ten years. Farming would collapse, and people all over the globe would starve to death. And that's if only half of one percent of all the atomic bombs on earth were used.
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
And, like it or not, you're in it.”
― Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
And, like it or not, you're in it.”
― Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
“The first criminals in the use of atomic bomb are not the politician who gave the order to use the atomic bomb, or the pilot of the plane that carried it, but the scientist who invented the bomb and the people who actually made the bomb physically!”
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