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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Leona Libby, the Pioneering Nuclear Physicist Who Helped Build the Atomic Bomb ... It’s a good baby book, she said, as though he had written a decent beginner’s guide on the subject.

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 ...