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A lively and provocative study of one of the great specters that has hung over the Earth since 1945. A timely work, given the current state of the world. - Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse Berger's fascinating and well-written biography of the atomic bomb, from X-rays to Iranian centrifuges, introduces the science, the major people, ideas, events, and efforts at control. Told within the context of world tensions and Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity, it illuminates the problems and pitfalls of nuclear weapons. - Joseph C. Fitzharris, editor of Patton's Fighting Bridge Builders Berger provides an astute yet brief synthesis of the history of the nuclear age, in particular the effect of the bomb on foreign relations and the planning of war. Summing Up: Recommended. - B. C. Odom, CHOICE Reviews

A lively and provocative study of one of the great specters that has hung over the Earth since 1945. A timely work, given the current state of the world. Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse Berger's fascinating and well-written biography of the atomic bomb, from X-rays to Iranian centrifuges, introduces the science, the major people, ideas, events, and efforts at control. Told within the context of world tensions and Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity, it illuminates the problems and pitfalls of nuclear weapons. Joseph C. Fitzharris, editor of Patton's Fighting Bridge Builders

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Albert I. Berger is Associate Professor of History and Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota. His previous publications include The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology (1993) and Divided Germany during the Cold War, 1945-1962 (2001).

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