Product Description: Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons – and how it has since tried to find a way out of it. Albert I. Berger charts the story of nuclear weapons from their origins through the Atomic Age and the Cold War up through the present day, arguing that an understanding of the history of nuclear weapons is crucial to modern efforts to manage them...read more

Dr. Seuss illustrates children's pure hearts and curious minds and loving others through a kind elephant Horton who tries to protect the tiny little creatures... Heartwarming and affectionate story.

Product Description: By the early 1900s the notion that a single bomb could destroy an entire city began to take root as physicists developed the science of fissionthe ability to create tremendous amounts of energy by splitting the atom. In 1939, as war swept across Europe, president Franklin D...read more

Product Description: Thousands of American soldiers were dying and millions more combattants and civilians were perishing during World War II. Some of the world’s greatest scientists escaped their own war-torn countries and fled to the Unites States...read more

Product Description: An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon...read more

Product Description: Discusses the work of the Manhattan Project to develop and test the atomic bomb, as well as the decision to use it during World War II.