Sheinkin, Steve.

Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon / Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon Steve Sheinkin. - First Scholastic printing, September 2013 - New York : Scholastic, 2012 - 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.

9781596434875 (hc) 9780545595971

2011044096


Atomic bomb--History.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Norway--Vemork.
Operation Freshman, 1942.
Atomic bomb--History.--Germany

UG1282.A8 / S235 2012

623.4/5119