Book Reviews

We have reviewed some recent books on the atomic age.

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• Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
  Reviewed November 30, 2007
• Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
  Reviewed November 29, 2007
• The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom
  Reviewed July 18, 2007
• Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect
  Reviewed July 5, 2007
• The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
  Reviewed April 23, 2006
• Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI
  Reviewed March 14, 2006
• Waiting for the End of the World
  Reviewed January 02, 2006
• The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War
  Reviewed December 18, 2005
• All Things Nuclear
  Reviewed November 28, 2005
• 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
  Reviewed October 25, 2005
• Whole World on Fire
  Reviewed August 26, 2005
• Before The Fallout : From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
  Reviewed August 26, 2005
• Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Disarmament Movement
  Reviewed August 4, 2005
• The Bomb: A Life
  Reviewed May 11, 2005
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  Reviewed April 19, 2005
• Nuclear Terrorism : The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
  Reviewed April 4, 2005
• Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove
  Reviewed March 3, 2005
• Fermi Remembered
  Reviewed February 17, 2005
• Chernobyl Legacy
  Reviewed February 06, 2005
• Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
  Reviewed January 25, 2005
• The Bomb and Its Deadly Shadow
  Reviewed January 9, 2005
• Children of Usher: Growing Up in Los Alamos
  Reviewed January 9, 2005
• Engaging India
  Reviewed November 30, 2004
• Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis
  Reviewed November 29, 2004
• J. Robert Oppenheimer : And the American Century
  Reviewed October 19, 2004
• Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
  Reviewed September 10, 2004
• The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974
  Reviewed August 30, 2004
• Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe
  Reviewed July 30, 2004
• Oppenheimer: Portrait Of An Enigma
  Reviewed June 22, 2004
• Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
  Reviewed June 22, 2004
• Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program
  Reviewed May 25, 2004
• Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
  Reviewed May 12, 2004
• Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers
  Reviewed April 15, 2004
• Face to Face with the Bomb
  Reviewed April 15, 2004
• Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island
  Reviewed March 20, 2004
• Britain and the H-Bomb
  Reviewed January 20, 2004
• Brotherhood of the Bomb
  Reviewed October 15, 2002
• Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics
  Reviewed January 14, 2002
• Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington
  Reviewed October 16, 2001