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  • Gregg Herken The best books about bombs: who made them, and who thought about using them Book cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Book cover of The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race Book cover of Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R.Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man Book cover of Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb
  • Denise Kiernan The best books on the Manhattan Project and the making of the atomic bomb Book cover of Hiroshima Book cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book cover of Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age Book cover of Truman Book cover of Day of Trinity
  • Shirley Streshinsky and Patricia Klaus The best books about the race to build the first atomic bomb, and its earthly consequences Book cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Book cover of Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma Book cover of Uncommon Sense Book cover of Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb Book cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Jacob Berkowitz The best books on how science won World War Two Book cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book cover of The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution Book cover of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War Book cover of Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America Book cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • David N. Schwartz The best books on the lives of 20th century physicists Book cover of The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom Book cover of Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman Book cover of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb Book cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Book cover of Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
  • Kate Andersen Brower The best books about rule-breaking, risk-taking, bad a$# women Book cover of A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of Jackie after Jack: Portrait of the Lady Book cover of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
  • V. S. Maxon The best books for seeing past the face people show you Book cover of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Book cover of The Days of Abandonment Book cover of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Book cover of Betrayal Book cover of Scenes from a Marriage
  • Merrill J. Davies The best books about how women helped win World War II Book cover of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory Book cover of Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II Book cover of On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah Book cover of Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II
  • Aurélie Basha i Novosejt The best books on the life and times of Daniel Ellsberg Book cover of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Book cover of The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office Book cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Book cover of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Book cover of Papers on the War
  • Melissa L. Sevigny The best books about women in science whose names everyone should know Book cover of Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor Book cover of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Book cover of Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine Book cover of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Book cover of Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
  • Rebecca Langston-George The best children’s books about little-known US history (from a former teacher) Book cover of The Eternal Soldier: The True Story of How a Dog Became a Civil War Hero Book cover of Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp Book cover of Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Book cover of The Green Glass Sea Book cover of Farewell to Manzanar
  • John Staddon The best books on scientific method: how science works, fails to work and pretends to work Book cover of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Book cover of The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Book cover of Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth Book cover of An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine Book cover of Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
  • Margaret Meps Schulte The best books to get you talking to strangers Book cover of A Walk Across America Book cover of Living High: An Unconventional Autobiography Book cover of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Book cover of Travels with Charley: In Search of America Book cover of Where the Heart Is
  • Elizabeth Reed Aden Elizabeth Reed Aden's favorite books where curiosity sparks important insights Book cover of The Hot Zone Book cover of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Book cover of Letters from the Field 1925-1975 Book cover of Henrietta Schmerler and the Murder that Put Anthropology on Trial Book cover of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
  • Joel Bakan The best books revealing the inhumanity of authoritarianism and fascism Book cover of Prophet Song Book cover of The Wind Knows My Name Book cover of The Man Who Loved Dogs Book cover of The Lacuna Book cover of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Sam Kean The best books that will open your mind to the wonders of biology Book cover of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life Book cover of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Book cover of A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology Book cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book cover of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
  • Nicholas Mee The best books to read when contemplating the risks of nuclear technology Book cover of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book cover of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Book cover of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety Book cover of Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima Book cover of Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
  • Donna M. Lucey The best books about women who broke the rules—or new ground Book cover of Country Girl: A Memoir Book cover of Orlando: A Biography Book cover of From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography Book cover of The House of Mirth Book cover of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
  • Kitty Zeldis The best historical novels that feature bad-ass women Book cover of Poison Book cover of Atomic Love Book cover of Cradles of the Reich Book cover of The Summer Wives Book cover of In The Shadow Of The Greenbrier
  • Ali Almossawi The best books on subjects other than thinking that will still teach you how to think Book cover of Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Book cover of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Book cover of Tesla: Man Out of Time Book cover of Comparisons Book cover of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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