This gem was on the Amazon Prime Reading list as a free monthly read, so I gave it a shot. I literally didn’t want to stop reading it.
I think I enjoyed it more than most books on this topic because it was neither of the following: 1) not wholly focused on the possible ethical/conscience battles the physicists faced, and 2) wasn’t overly technical and primarily focused on explaining the hard physics of their successes and failures. It really was a well rounded look at the people, impact the war, and the effect the discovery of a sustained fission reaction had on the study of physics and the world.
That said, I could have done with a bit more technical detail personally. I can’t hold that against this read though as it’s Pretty clear from the start this isn’t a research paper or anything.
Definately worth picking up.
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