Creating an atomic bomb. ROUDS R.

For the first time in Russian: a full-scale picture of socio-political events of the late XIX XX century, presented through the prism of creating an atomic bomb. The main work of the prominent American historian Richard Roads, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, comparable in coverage and significance with the “take -off and fall of the Third Reich” William Shirer. From the predictions of the appearance of nuclear energy in Herbert Wells’s novels and the first research in the field of science of fission of the nucleus to the Manhattan project, testing of the Trinity nuclear bomb at the American training ground of Alamogordo, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Rouds Cold War, it leads us along this path Step by step, revealing the details of the most amazing invention of a person, which forever changed the appearance of the world and the course of human history, and without ignoring the ethical side of the issue in the context of the rapid development of technologies.