Full name: Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Author: Steve Sheinkin Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781250050649 1250050642

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb. Bomb is a 2012 National Book Awards finalist for Young People's Literature. Bomb is a 2012 Washington Post Best Kids Books of the Year title. Bomb is a 2013 Newbery Honor book. Similar books: The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin Which Way to the Wild West? by Steve Sheinkin Two Miserable Presidents by Steve Sheinkin Hitler's Scientists by John Cornwell Serving the Reich by Philip Ball The Manhattan Project by Cynthia C. Kelly Pure Grit by Mary Cronk Farrell The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff Double Cross by Ben Macintyre Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb Sachiko by Caren Stelson Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre Agent Garbo by Stephan Talty