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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 25,092 ratings — published 1986
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,130 ratings — published 1995
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 69,916 ratings — published 2019
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,603 ratings — published 2024
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 263 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 — 144 ratings — published 1994
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,764 ratings — published 2022
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 854 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 — 66,935 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 — 2,990 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 — 14,948 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 — 1,476 ratings — published 2013
Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 107 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 — 727 ratings — published 2010
A Slow Death: 83 Days of Radiation Sickness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,314 ratings — published 2008
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,735 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 4.22 — 2,967 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 — 6,194 ratings — published 2010
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,325 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 — 413 ratings — published
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 62,003 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 — 940 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 — 841 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 — 32,433 ratings — published 2013
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 4.54 — 2,028 ratings — published 2025
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 251 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 — 195,000 ratings — published 2016
La Bombe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,286 ratings — published 2020
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,749 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 — 3,128 ratings — published 2016
Ghosts of Hiroshima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,814 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 — 1,035 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 — 5,674 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 4.25 — 4,600 ratings — published 2008
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,762 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 — 1,159 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 4.18 — 3,801 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 3.84 — 138 ratings — published 2023
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 550 ratings — published
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 590 ratings — published 2022
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 291 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 — 4,446 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 — 618 ratings — published
Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 537 ratings — published 2020
Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.37 — 225 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 3.99 — 360 ratings — published 2016
The Spy Who Changed The World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 182 ratings — published 2014