Stunning.

As a nuclear weapons buff, there still isn't reams of information on the inner workings of the hydrogen bomb. This book is written by someone that actually contributed massively towards the development of Mike Shot in 1952, and gives that little bit of format hand insight that you won't come across often. This feels like an important book to me. It's a great story, and that extra level of detail based upon the fact that this man was actually doing the calculations on the thermonuclear burn of the first Hydrogwn weapon, just makes it that much more mouth watering. The book is a great listen and I didn't want it to end. It will surely get another listen, and some of the sections briefly detailing the physics of the device or its configuration, were re-wound over and over, purely to ensure that I had absorbed every second of luscious information.
If you have an interest in nuclear weapons, or physics, or both and enjoy the story of the person that goes with it (which is interesting in itself), then this book is for you. The author is a man that I would surely like to sit and sip a beverage with, whilst talking about his life experiences and his time working with the Hydrogen bomb and later nuclear physics. Terrific book, although '10.4 megahrs' shorter than I would have liked!

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