"'Both my great grandfathers had cancer, my two grandmothers had cancer, my father had three different cancers, my sister has cancer,' Tina Cordova says mournfully as she flicks through an old family photo album in her living room."
Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the people, and the socio-political realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.