Book Review: The Neutrons Long Shadow

I have always admired books that support the technical material that is learned in the classroom. These are the biographies of the scientists and engineers in our fields, the histories of their great scientific discoveries, and now becoming more numerous are the histories of the technical advances made in the 20th century. Among them, perhaps leading the way in some respects, are the histories of the atomic bomb-making apparatus of the United States. Some have even been reviewed in this column—Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) being one of the better known of this type.