AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE BOMB
A Novel By Jim Shankman
The scientific story of the physicists who built the atomic bomb is well known. But there is another story concerning the physicists who created the bomb, a story about the moral and psychological complexities that confounded them and the heavy price they paid for their exhausting labor in a confused political environment. This is the story of Autobiography Of The Bomb , an account of the men who built the bomb and were in different ways destroyed by it.
Chapter One of Autobiography Of The Bomb is excerpted here in The Write Launch