4218 Dark Sun The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes (read 13 Oct 2006) I read Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb on May 13, 1990, and it was the "Book of the Year" so I read this 1995 book by him. This book is stunningly interesting also--at times. There are many pages of information meaningful only to a scientist, and I made no attempt to get anything out of those pages. But the account of the spies--Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs, et al., --was of high interest, though regrettably the accounts of their trials is brief. The telling of the tests of the hydrogen bomb in 1952 and 1954 is full of dramatic interest. And the account of the confrontations during the Cold War is startlingly fearsome. There is no doubt that if LeMay had had a president like our present one there would have been nuclear war, with millions dead and the world totally changed. This is a good book, and the author makes wise judgments and tells an absorbing story. ( )

History of the development of the hydrogen bomb revealing the Russian espionage going on throughout and the infighting within Los Alamos. ( )

A fairly interesting look at the invention of the hydrogen bomb.

I would have preferred something more technical, but, to be fair, it was about as technical as one would expect in a popular book.
My second disappointment was that it really covered only the US, and only up to the first dry bomb; I would have preferred much more coverage of other countries, and of post-invention technical developments. But, again to be fair, the author wrote the book he wanted, not the book I wanted. ( )