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Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.

Author: Sheinkin, Steve.

Imprint:New York : Roaring Brook Press, c2012.

Description:266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:hree-way race -- Chain reactions -- How to build an atomic bomb -- Final assembly.

Note:Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.

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