 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.14 The classic account of the Manhattan Project.
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 | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.65 A magnificent, award-winning biography of the father of the atomic bomb, nearly a quarter-century in the making.
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 | James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age by James Hershberg
Buy used from: $2.31 An extensive study of one of the key civilian leaders of the project.
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| Genius in the Shadows : A Biography of Leo Szilard : The Man Behind the Bomb by William Lanouette
Buy used from: $11.75 The life of Leo Szilard, a key figure in pushing for the construction of the bomb.
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 | 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $1.00 An account of the lives of the scientists as they labored to build the bomb.
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 | A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies by Martin Sherwin
Buy new: $20.11 / Used from: $7.26 The decision to use the bomb and its consequences.
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 | Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.86 Rhodes's follow-up to his earlier book, about the Soviet project and the construction of America's hydrogen bomb.
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 | The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla McMillan
Buy used from: $0.79 The definitive account of Oppenheimer's destruction.
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