Very fascinating volume. Eruditely packs with critical historical and scientific knowledge yet thoroughly entertaining to boot. Shit I could not have imagined and probably never would have ever learned about this crazy element and our quest for exploitation of its galactic scale power. I was totally transfixed by this story. Style and humour add to the package. This should be compulsory secondary school reading as the decisions we make about exploiting atomic energy rebound on this planet for an eternity. Plutonium also gets star billing. Really it could have been called a history of atomic power with the same end result. This is my only nitpicking point though. A killer read. Excuse the pun. This was a fascinating book, full of historical and scientific insights. It focused mostly on the aspect of uranium as a weapon, which was very interesting and disturbing. However, after reading it I feel less fearful of a rogue group with a nuclear weapon and more fearful of the after-effects of nuclear power. He only mentions Three Mile Island and Chernobyl one time; I wish he had focused more on uranium as energy. But I still recommend the book as an excellent history and a very good scientific explanation of atomic weapons.
it wasn't as detailed as i expected it to be, however the author probably tried his best
—allyson
Different setting through time and geography where/when ur has been the main character.
—DelineFilarca
WAY COOL READ...
—gopi
