Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 08/06/1996
ISBN: 9780684824147
Pages: 736
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d

Review Citations: New York Times 09/01/1996 pg. 24
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 100
Publishers Weekly 06/03/1996