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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 — 20,722 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,610 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 — 56,637 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,074 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 — 31,564 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 — 9,631 ratings — published 2020
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,896 ratings — published 2006
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.38 — 174,584 ratings — published 2012
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,053 ratings — published 1977
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.29 — 7,566 ratings — published 2014
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,979 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 — 833 ratings — published 2007
The Secret Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.71 — 597 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 — 299,294 ratings — published 2009
The Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.54 — 25,206 ratings — published 2018
Black Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,488 ratings — published 1965
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,470 ratings — published 2012
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,480 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 — 21,435 ratings — published 2016
Alien Species Intervention (Species Intervention #6609, #1-3)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,162 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 — 2,569 ratings — published 2005
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,080 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 — 465 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 — 371 ratings — published 2006
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,258 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,799 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 — 8,622 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 — 24,371 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 — 48,093 ratings — published 1959
Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.97 — 87 ratings — published 2003
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.99 — 277 ratings — published 1995
We of Nagasaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.35 — 31 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 — 694 ratings — published
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 3.84 — 282 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 — 2,120 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 — 13,537 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 — 2,987 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 — 14,280 ratings — published 2013
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.07 — 996 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,221,808 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 — 176 ratings — published 2018
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,091 ratings — published 2005
The Last Cherry Blossom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as atomic-bomb)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,038 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
“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
“Every American who has permitted himself to make jokes about atom bombs, or who has come to regard them as just one sensational phenomenon that can now be accepted as part of civilization, like the airplane and the gasoline engine… ought to read Mr. Hersey,” the editorial read.”
― 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
