Discusses Iraq's initial steps toward creating an atomic bomb and the secret plan by Israeli air force commander David Ivry to launch an air strike on Iraq's reactor in defiance of its U.S. and European allies, recounting the dramatic...

This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. During the Cold W...

Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh li...