Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1935) 'Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric

'Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits

and the early chapters from "The Bhagavad Gita"

this book challenges simplistic and stigmatizing ideas about working-class people

What will most intrigue modern readers is how many of Tocqueville’s observations still hold true: on the mixed advantages of a free press

he discusses the many "theories of everything" that try to reduce the complexity of the world to a single principle

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1935) 'Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmosphericHere, 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