So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in
luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree
in nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourself
manual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included), Fallout
will bring you up to speed on the science and politics of the first nuclear
gadgets.
Like its companion volumes, the focus of Fallout is on the
scientists themselves -- in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard,
whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy alliance between the
military, the government, and the beginnings of "big science."
