lavaplanetleopard's review
2.0
The author wrote about the connections of Congo's rich reserves of Uranium to the birth of the first atomic bomb. While a good part of the book does not interest me - the author elaboration of the tribes in New Mexico and the life story of some explorers who visited New Mexico, the author does give a detailed account of how the Uranium was transported to the US and the bureaucratic process of creating the first atomic bomb, as well as the various scientific discoveries leading up to the formation of the bomb. Author gives brief mention to the Nazi's project on the atomic bomb which was eventually abandoned. There is a story about the fateful day the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and the implications of nuclear energy as seen in Fukushima.
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