Bomb

 

Bomb: The Race to Build -- and Steal -- The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, illus. Nick Bertozzi 262 pp. 

This is the graphic novel adaptation of Sheinkin's 2012 book Bomb focuses on the development and building of the atomic bombs during World War II and the spies who stole vital information that made it possible for the USSR to develop their own nuclear weapons shortly after the end of the war. There is also a brief account of the Norwegian soldiers who sabotaged the Heavy Water plant and caused a massive delay in the Nazi development of a similar bomb. Other aspects of the Manhattan project were touched on including the selection of Captain Paul Tibbets to lead the training of the air crews designated to drop the bombs on Japan and the Trinity test of the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, NM. Of course, it is impossible to include everything about this slice of history in a 260 page book but this was nicely done. Now I need to read the book this was adapted from.