Creating an atomic bomb

For the first time in Russian: a full-scale picture of socio-political events of the late XIX-XX century, presented through the prism of creating an atomic bomb. The main work of the prominent American historian Richard Ruds, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, comparable in terms of coverage and significance with the “take -off and fall of the Third Reich” William Shirer. From the predictions of the appearance of nuclear energy in Herbert Wells’s novels and the first research in the field of science of dividing the nucleus to the Manhattan project, testing of the Trinity nuclear bomb at the American Alamogordo training ground, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Arms race - Rouds conducts us according to this The way step by step, revealing the details of the most amazing invention of man, which forever changed the appearance of the world and the course of human history, and not by ignoring the ethical side of the issue in the context of the rapid development of technology