"A Bomb A Life" De Groot

In the book " The Bomb A Life" De Groot , in three chapters, pictures in great detail the three steps that started the atomic age: the decisions, the test in New Mexico and the final "test" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The NAME objectively untwists the scheme behind one of the most significant event of the modern world. The forth chapter describes the beginning of the atomic age, the testing of the bomb in the desert of …

…the Germens or the Japanese would have invented the atomic bomb first. During battle weapons are used and America used a weapon to end a war the Japanese started. At least the beginning of the atomic age, although stigmatised by the blood of civilian victims will always be bound with the ending of a horrible war and not with the beginning of one that might have ended in the complete destruction of the whole world.