عندما مدّ الشيطان يده نحو السماء: تاريخ صنع وإطلاق القنبلة الذرية

A New York Times bestseller • “Brilliant...a stunning narrative that captures the surreal mix of ingenuity, fate, and horror in the nuclear saga.” -Publishers Weekly (Featured Review) • “If you're an intelligent person, or at least think you are, you should read 'The Devil Stretches Out His Hand to Heaven'...This period of history has never been more important and terrifying than it is today.” - James Patterson • “Comprehensive and engaging...an excellent oral history.” - Kirkus Reviews. On the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Pulitzer Prize finalist, whose work is considered “oral history at its finest” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), presents an epic account of the making and deployment of the atomic bomb, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians. Building the atomic bomb is the boldest project in human history: a secret push by a small group of scientists and engineers to unleash the greatest power in the universe. Even today, the Manhattan Project conjures audacity and the greatest of dreams: ending World War II in the Pacific. While Marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen fight overseas, men and women strive to discover the secrets of the atom in places like Chicago, Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Hanford and Los Alamos. On August 6, 1945, the world discovers what the end of the war will look like - and the beginning of a new global era. The path to the first atomic bomb ends in Hiroshima, Japan, but begins in Hitler's Europe, where brilliant physicists were forced to flee fascism and anti-Semitism - bringing with them to America their determination to harness atomic energy before it fell into the Führer's arsenal. Devil Reached Out traces the advances and accelerating pace of atomic development in the years leading up to 1945, then takes us inside the B-29 bombers that carried the Little Boy and Fat Man bombs, all the way to the site of the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This book, written by Garrett M. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Graf presents a panoramic account of how ordinary people coped with the extraordinary dangers, sacrifices, and choices that would change the course of history. Engineers experiment with terrifying forces, knowing that each passing day costs soldiers' lives, but they also fear the consequences of their innovations. Hundreds of thousands of workers work around the clock to produce uranium and plutonium in an endeavor so secret that most of those involved do not learn the truth about their efforts until President Truman announces them over the radio. The 509th Composite Group is training for a mission whose details are kept secret until shortly before takeoff, when the Enola Gay and Boxcar collide.