Day One
Valentine, Brian
Commonweal: 446 In Brief Day One: Before Hiroshima and After, by Peter Wyden. Simon & Schuster, $19.95, 369 pp. Overseas Press Club Award winner Peter Wyden dramatically relates the tale of the...
...He looks at the nuclear arms race at its inception, and nothing could be more relevant in this age of Star Wars and the MX missile...
...Interwoven in this story are 9 August 1985: 447 those of the German, Russian, and Japanese scientists who also worked, however unsuccessfully, on their own bomb programs...
...Wyden reveals the doubts of many of the scientists who developed the bomb, and the ignorance of those who chose to use it...
...BRIAN VALENTINE...
...in it, and General Leslie R. Groves, who was given the job to build the bomb, are presented believably in all of their complexities...
...Overseas Press Club Award winner Peter Wyden dramatically relates the tale of the scientific and military specialists who worked on the Manhattan Project, and of the politicians who chose to drop the bomb...
...Wells novel and persuaded his friend Albert Einstein to interest F.D.R...
...Day One draws its strength from Wy-den's portrayal of the principal characters...
...The personalities of such men as Leo Szilard, who took the idea of an A-bomb from an H.G...
...Finally, Wyden takes the reader to ground zero in Hiroshima, "the Death City," and recounts the experience of the survivors...
Vol. 112 • August 1985 • No. 14
