Originally Posted by
wiggy
It's a complex bit of history, that's for sure.......Rhodes has done as good a job as anybody at depicting what went on...
+1 for Richard Rhodes's book, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". It's a wonderful synthesis of history, physics and engineering. He also wrote "Dark Sun" which is a history of the thermonuclear bomb and "Arsenals of Folly" about the post-war arms race and the end of the Cold War.