Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
- ISBN10 0684824140
- ISBN13 9780684824147
- Publish Date 23 September 1996 (first published 1 September 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 731
- Language English