القصة الاستثنائية للقنبلة الذرية والأيام الـ 116 التي غيرت العالم

The US national bestseller, described by The New York Times as “thrilling” and “suspenseful” (Time Magazine), gives a behind-the-scenes account of the events leading up to the US attack on Hiroshima, in the style of “a suspense novel” (The Washington Post), by Chris Wallace, a veteran journalist, CNN anchor and Max host. April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America was shocked by the news of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, removed from war planning and knowing nothing about the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb, finds himself forced to take command of a nation at war on multiple continents, and face one of the most important decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks and months that followed, leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gave the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima. In this book, Chris Wallace, veteran journalist, CNN anchor, and host of Max, takes us on a journey inside the minds of prominent and obscure figures who joined the bomb-making endeavor, each for his own reasons: from the legendary Albert Einstein, who later described his public support of the atomic bomb as “the biggest mistake of my life”; To the principal investigator, J. Robert "Obie" Oppenheimer and the Soviet spies who secretly infiltrated his team; to the fiercely competitive pilots who chose the plane to drop the bomb; And many others. Perhaps most important of all, "Countdown 1945" tells the story of a new, untested president, faced with a decision he knows will change the world forever. But Countdown 1945 is not just a book about the atomic bomb. It is also an unforgettable account of the wartime lives of ordinary American and Japanese civilians, from the Calutron Girls like Ruth Sisson in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to Hideko Tamura, the 10-year-old Hiroshima resident who survived the explosion at its epicenter but lost her mother and later immigrated to the United States, where she lives to this day, along with the soldiers. Americans who were fighting in the Pacific, fearfully awaited the order to launch a possible invasion of Japan. Told with verve, intelligence and humanity, Countdown 1945 is the perfect account of one of the most important moments in history.