Bomb

Bomb; THE RACE TO BUILD AND STEAL THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL WEAPON 

By: Griffin H.

Author: Steve Sheinkin 

Ages 9+

An enticing book, very well written, taking after real people that had studied to build the world’s first atomic bomb.

Robert Oppenheimer, physics professor and teacher at Harvard, had no interest at all in World War II, until one day a German scientist named Otto Hahn discovered that when uranium protons and neutrons collide, they split apart, causing them to release a small amount of energy into the air.

This small discovery caused a huge arms race to build a bomb so powerful it could wipe out whole cities; scientists all over the world were rushed to offices to build this weapon of mass destruction.

Though it isn’t all about the scientists, soviet spies and Norwegian freedom fighters like Knut Haukelid and Harry Gold spice up this adventure of how the first atomic bomb was built and “distributed” to Hiroshima, Japan.

This book is very interesting, good to read before you go to sleep, and some funny stories about what happened to a lot of the characters! The book is very fast-paced with surprisingly barely any violence at all.