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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,326 ratings — published 1986
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,514 ratings — published 2019
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 59,045 ratings — published 2024
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,187 ratings — published 1995
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,819 ratings — published 2022
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 274 ratings — published 2021
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 143 ratings — published 1994
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 878 ratings — published 2020
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,790 ratings — published 1997
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,035 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 — 15,120 ratings — published 2013
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,502 ratings — published 2013
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 296 ratings — published 2025
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 108 ratings — published
Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 738 ratings — published 2010
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,389 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,773 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 — 2,985 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 — 6,277 ratings — published 2010
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,210 ratings — published 2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,365 ratings — published 2017
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 419 ratings — published
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,785 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 4.31 — 949 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 3.92 — 845 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 — 32,629 ratings — published 2013
Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.71 — 38 ratings — published
Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.33 — 9 ratings — published 2006
The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,476 ratings — published 2019
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,270 ratings — published 2025
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 200,158 ratings — published 2016
La Bombe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,327 ratings — published 2020
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,857 ratings — published 2022
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 — 3,165 ratings — published 2016
Ghosts of Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,974 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 — 1,042 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 — 5,726 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 — 4,642 ratings — published 2008
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,954 ratings — published 2025
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,166 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 4.17 — 4,014 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 3.85 — 140 ratings — published 2023
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 563 ratings — published
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 601 ratings — published 2022
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 297 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 — 4,538 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 4.15 — 619 ratings — published