Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb

' PANDORA'S KEEPERS offers a fresh look at the dawn of the nuclear age by examining not just the scientific accomplishments, but the thoughts, feelings, and judgments of these nine men who created the first weapon of mass destruction.' -Boston Globe They were nine brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the awesome workings of an invisible world. They came from many places, some fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb.