Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the
definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind
the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union,
this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States
decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more
than forty years.