The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson

The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

Steve Olson

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history tense slow-paced
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A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph—and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us.Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to...

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