Science pressed into the service of politics is the subject of this new work on the Manhattan Project. Herken delivers a triple biography of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller, the trio of physicists responsible for creating the atomic bomb. With a focus on their tumultuous relationship, Herken demonstrates how their personalities affected the course of science and history. Herken draws his information from private papers, interviews with Manhattan Project survivors, and recently released documents and coded intercepts obtained from FBI and KGB archives.  (USW424, $30.00)

Atomic Bomb
World War II