So, as Hitler escalates the war he is waging in Europe, President Roosevelt (at the behest of Albert Einstein) puts together a group of physicists known as the Uranium Committee to start looking into the possibility of building a nuclear weapon-especially before Germany can do so.
They aren't all mad scientists, but they are in the midst of World War II, a conflict everyone is ready to see resolved in a quick and definitive manner. In the last days of 1938 when Otto Hahn accidentally discovers atomic fission during an experiment in his lab, he sets off a chain of events that forever change the world.Īs word of his revelation spreads amongst the scientific community, it quickly becomes evident that splitting uranium atoms could be used to create a bomb with massive destruction capabilities.
Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon Summary
