The author recounts the story of how the atomic bomb was developed, from the discovery at the turn of century of the vast energy locked inside the atom, to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan during the Second World War.
- ISBN10 0684813785
- ISBN13 9780684813783
- Publish Date 1 August 1995 (first published 16 March 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 9 August 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 896
- Language English