Zrození atomové bomby – Rhodes Richard (2026)

This complete history of the development of the nuclear bomb is also a history of science, politics and the fate of the modern world. The story of the atomic bomb is a story of human civilisation. Scientific discoveries at the end of the nineteenth century suggested the promise of limitless energy, but in the twentieth century they collided with politics and the realities of war, bringing the world to the brink of catastrophe and the possibility of total self-destruction, a threat that has never disappeared. The book tells this story in full: from the discovery of the atom to the hell unleashed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; from European and Japanese laboratories to American war offices; from the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Albert Fermi, Max Planck, John von Neumann and Robert Oppenheimer, through spies and leading politicians to ordinary soldiers and workers; and from academic debates and science-fiction novels to the greatest battles of the Second World War. It is also a story that influenced the rest of the twentieth century and continues to cast its shadow over the present. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and other honours.