Sheinkin instead tells the start-to-finish tale of how the atom bomb came to be by sharing personal statements and stories of those directly involved in the crisis from around the world. Much of the book is based upon the happenings in the Manhattan Project, or the American and British project to build the atomic bomb before the rest of the world. A prologue about a spy rushing to destroy evidence begins the story and then the actual narrative commences with Robert Oppenheimer’s personal history leading up to his promotion to the head of the bomb project. Oppenheimer’s past is explained, and the journey to building the bomb begins. After Soviet spies gain access to American files through treason-committing citizens, the attack on Pearl Harbor leads to the race to make the first atomic bomb. Covert operations to sabotage foreign bomb making efforts are conducted, then the Manhattan Project, which is set up to create the American and British atomic bomb, is begun. Nearly six years of work and many espionage deals later, it is time to perilously test the atomic bomb. Following not even a month after the
Sheinkin instead tells the start-to-finish tale of how the atom bomb came to be by sharing personal statements and stories of those directly involved in the crisis from around the world. Much of the book is based upon the happenings in the Manhattan Project, or the American and British project to build the atomic bomb before the rest of the world. A prologue about a spy rushing to destroy evidence begins the story and then the actual narrative commences with Robert Oppenheimer’s personal history leading up to his promotion to the head of the bomb project. Oppenheimer’s past is explained, and the journey to building the bomb begins. After Soviet spies gain access to American files through treason-committing citizens, the attack on Pearl Harbor leads to the race to make the first atomic bomb. Covert operations to sabotage foreign bomb making efforts are conducted, then the Manhattan Project, which is set up to create the American and British atomic bomb, is begun. Nearly six years of work and many espionage deals later, it is time to perilously test the atomic bomb. Following not even a month after the