Bombs are as old as hatred itself. But it was the twentieth
century--one hundred years of incredible scientific progress and
terrible war--that brought forth the Big One, the Bomb, humanity's
most powerful and destructive invention. In "The Bomb: A Life,"
Gerard DeGroot tells the story of this once unimaginable weapon
that--at least since 8: 16 a.m. on August 6, 1945--has haunted our
dreams and threatened our existence.
The Bomb has killed hundreds of thousands outright, condemned
many more to lingering deaths, and made vast tracts of land unfit
for life. For decades it dominated the psyches of millions,
becoming a touchstone of popular culture, celebrated or decried in
mass political movements, films, songs, and books. DeGroot traces
the life of the Bomb from its birth in turn-of-the-century physics
labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the
1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini,
Australia and Kazakhstan to maturity in test sites and missile
silos around the globe. His book portrays the Bomb's short but
significant existence in all its scope, providing us with a
portrait of the times and the people--from Oppenheimer to Sakharov,
Stalin to Reagan--whose legacy still shapes our world.
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