"BUILDING"What if the research and development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other, more unusual, programs? Th

The eccentric scientists of the Manhattan Project, using the building of the atomic bomb as a front, engage in unusual and sinister experiments that could affec

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. F

Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. This book tells the story o