by Steve Sheinkin
Wow wow wow this is not what I'm here for. "Another [danger] is that an actual government--like the secretive rulers of North Korea--might just be crazy enough to lash out with atomic bombs." ... you mean like the US did at the end of WWII because Japan wouldn't surrender? The book wants to be ...
Bomb: the Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin is a level Z on the Fountas and Pinnell reading level scale. Bomb: the Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon is about the scientific discoveries of atom splitting, and the covert operations of e...
I really enjoyed listening to this book, learning a lot that I did not know about all that went on during this race. I did have a little problem keeping track of some of the many players involved, possibly because I was listening and not seeing the names. I don't think that this will be a book all...
This was a really fun read and I'm quite impressed with how easy it was to breeze through..for a nonfiction. I'll definitely be checking out more books by Steve Sheinkin. It is classified as a young adult (though I'm not really quite sure what makes a nonfiction young adult...besides maybe simplifie...
I am in the middle of moving from one country to another, so I just do not have the time to write a decent review of this excellent, marvelous book! Please, if you are at all interested in either history or amazing people grab this book soon. On closing this book the reader truly understand the atmo...
4/26/13 ** Wow! This is history, but told with a strong narrative voice and attention to the quirks, strengths, and foibles of the characters involved. The book essentially follows three story lines - the Americans' and Germans' races to build an atomic bomb during WWII and the Russians attempt to ...
Excellent.
Interesting, educational, terrifying - this book includes the ethics of science in war, cool spy secrets, and a chronology of bomb development that's pieced together masterfully. The chapter about the heavy water plant was my favorite. The brutality of war and the instability of our current nuclear...
Couldn't put it down. I would like to read historians' reviews to see how they think it stacks up and what the historiography looks like. But all the quality indicators are there--meticulous documentation of primary and secondary sources; and an unusual item--a source index for all quotations. So ma...
See my blog post, "Reading the Competition," at http://sullywriter.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/reading-the-competition-3/
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