Richard Rhodes

American author — author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Pulitzer Prize, 1987) — the definitive history of the Manhattan Project — and Dark Sun (on the hydrogen bomb) — the most important science-policy historian in America.

Creates the definitive account of nuclear weapons development — The Making of the Atomic Bomb combines scientific explanation, biography, and historical narrative so successfully that it stands as the model for how to write the history of big science; its account of Los Alamos is used as a teaching case in science policy, history, and creative writing.