It began as a whisper in the halls of science—a theory that could unlock the power of the stars. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Richard Rhodes chronicles the epic, secret race to forge the atomic bomb. Follow the world’s greatest minds as they grapple with towering ambition, immense pressure, and the moral cost of creating a weapon that would forever change humanity. More than history, this is the definitive, breathtaking account of how we gained the power to destroy our own world.