Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon Analysis

Los Alamos, New MexicoEven though the book covers events that happened all over the world, the vast majority of the important stuff happens in the remote desert town of Los Alamos, New Mexico.Findi...

Sheinkin wanted Bomb to be historical nonfiction that almost reads like a novel, which makes identifying the narrative technique a bit tricky. Sure, we're offered glimpses into the thoughts and mot...

Young Adult LiteratureEven though this book could obviously appeal to readers of all ages, Sheinkin wrote it with the intention of making history a little more interesting for teen audiences. He us...

You can tell that even though he tries to remain clinically detached in order to preserve the historical accuracy of his book, Sheinkin really likes some of the people that he writes about, and he...

Like the history textbooks that Sheinkin used to write, Bomb is written with language that's so simple it's on the verge of boring, without many of the flowery details that you would find in a typi...

The full title sure is a doozy: Bomb: The Race to Build—And Steal—The World's Most Dangerous Weapon. You can really see Sheinkin's textbook-writing roots shining through with this lengthy desig...

Sheinkin decides to end the epilogue of his book with a real eye-opener:In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of t...

When it comes down to it, Bomb is a pretty difficult read. The prose itself isn't that hard to understand, but there are more characters to keep track of than in A Game of Thrones. Okay, not really...

Nerds: Can't Live With 'em, Can't Build an Atomic Bomb Without 'em. In the exposition, we get to meet most of the big players in the Manhattan Project. Seeing as many of our main characters are bri...

Sheinkin's previous profession was writer of history textbooks. You know, the ones that tend to put you to sleep. So that's why he started writing his own versions—because history is never actual...

There is almost no steaminess in this book—at least none of the sexual variety. Even Oppenheimer's affair with Jean Tatlock is described solely using the length of time he spent in her apartment....

Author Unknown, Bhagavad-Gita (Test Shot.(31).74-77)This whole book is one, big, historical reference.