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[PhrogPhlyer]

First published in 1987 this is a must read. It is detailed enough for the scientist with a story worthy of the novelist.
I have read this several times since I bought a copy in 1987, and I found it to be the story of a) modern physics, b) the atomic bomb, and c) the cold war. This is the foundation read for anyone desiring an understanding of how the A-bomb led to the cold war and how it effects world policy and strategy today.

 

[Odominable]

First published in 1987 this is a must read. It is detailed enough for the scientist with a story worthy of the novelist.
I have read this several times since I bought a copy in 1987, and I found it to be the story of a) modern physics, b) the atomic bomb, and c) the cold war. This is the foundation read for anyone desiring an understanding of how the A-bomb led to the cold war and how it effects world policy and strategy today.

Excellent recommendation. I’ve never read a book that balanced so effectively very thorough technical detail with really, really good prose. The foreshadowing throughout was stupendous.

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

And if after The Making of the Atomic Bomb you are thirsting for more, there's the follow on book Dark Sun, Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
Essential books in what I call my Atomic Bookshelf collection.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Nice, looks like I have a couple new books to add to the bedside table this winter, thanks phrogphlyer

 

[gparks1989]

Just finished Skies of Thunder which is about the China-Burma-India theater broadly, and flying the Hump in particular. The stories of the pilots who flew the route are harrowing, to say the least. And I didn't appreciate the extent to which the CBI was a repository of charlatans and misfits (like Stillwell and Chennault, among many others). I am also always impressed by the British officers who were often fluent in multiple, obscure languages of India, Burma, and elsewhere.