I just finished reading Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. I also got to see Mr. Rhodes (one of my favorite writers) at the Hanford’s 70th anniversary event (I grew up 20 miles north).
I think I need to read On the Beach, but for now I think the science fact is plenty creepy enough, most especially in Dark Sun. To my modern eyes, Curtis LeMay and Edward Teller were flat-out evil, but in those days shaped national policy.
