Fantastic book. The way it explains the history of nuclear science is better than anything else I've read. The "sequel", "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen

Fantastic book. The way it explains the history of nuclear science is better than anything else I've read. The "sequel", "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb", is also great, though there's a bit less science innit; much of it is about what happened to Oppenheimer after the Manhattan Project. As a companion book, "American Prometheus", by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, is a superb biograph of J. Robert Oppenheimer.