The definitive telling of that story is Richard Rhodes’ Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, first released in 1986. The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text ...

As the smallest child in her family with five kids, Tsuru was 4 when the atomic bomb detonated over the city. Her father was crushed to death under a building that was destroyed by the blast.

On another level, it is a biography about the life of Harley Wilhelm, an Iowa chemist who played a key but largely unheralded role in building the atomic bomb. Wilhelm was also Waldof’s grandfather.

Lilli Schwenk Hornig was 23 years old when she arrived at Los Alamos to contribute to the development of an atomic bomb that would end World War II. A passionate chemist, Lilli battled sexism ...

Find out just how close the Nazis came to building atomic weapons during World War II, ... and the German Atomic Bomb (Perseus, 1995), among other books and articles on science and ...

The film is based on the Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin book American Prometheus, which explores how Oppenheimer's work on the Manhattan Project led to the creation of the first atomic bomb during ...