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.