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Nuclear History Books
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 24,499 ratings — published 1986
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 46,722 ratings — published 2024
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 793 ratings — published 2020
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,563 ratings — published 2013
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,038 ratings — published 1995
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,425 ratings — published 2013
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,631 ratings — published 2022
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 700 ratings — published 2010
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,210 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,629 ratings — published 2021
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 248 ratings — published 2021
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,910 ratings — published 2014
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,149 ratings — published 2010
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,895 ratings — published 2020
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 402 ratings — published 1979
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 59,166 ratings — published 2005
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 902 ratings — published 2016
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 838 ratings — published 2007
Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 45 ratings — published 2011
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 31,969 ratings — published 2013
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,043 ratings — published 2016
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 97 ratings — published
Ghosts of Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,165 ratings — published 2025
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,014 ratings — published 2020
The Uranium People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 1979
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 33 ratings — published 1999
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,553 ratings — published 2009
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,497 ratings — published 2008
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,083 ratings — published 2025
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 65,152 ratings — published 2019
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,126 ratings — published 2017
Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,442 ratings — published 1955
The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 131 ratings — published 2023
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 514 ratings — published
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 568 ratings — published 2022
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 279 ratings — published 2020
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,241 ratings — published 2019
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 615 ratings — published
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 509 ratings — published 2020
Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.37 — 222 ratings — published 2016
Radioactive!: How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 349 ratings — published 2016
The Spy Who Changed The World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 172 ratings — published 2014
ATOMIC EMPIRE, AN: A TECHNICAL HISTORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRAMME (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 2013
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 185 ratings — published 2012
The Rise of Nuclear Fear (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 58 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,083 ratings — published 2009
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 73 ratings — published 2009
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 376 ratings — published 2009
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 339 ratings — published 2005
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 120 ratings — published 1992
