Creation of the Atomic Bomb

For the first time in Russian: a comprehensive picture of the socio-political events of the late 19th - 20th century, presented through the lens of the creation of the atomic bomb. The main work of prominent American historian Richard Rhodes, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, comparable in scope and significance to William Shirer's «The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich». From predictions of the emergence of nuclear energy in Herbert Wells' novels and early studies in the field of nuclear fission to the Manhattan Project, the testing of the atomic bomb «Trinity» at the American test site at Alamogordo, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the arms race during the Cold War — Rhodes takes us on this path step by step, revealing the details of humanity's most astonishing invention, which forever changed the face of the world and the course of human history, while also addressing the ethical aspect of the issue in the context of rapid technological development.