Brighter than a Thousand Suns

Brighter than a Thousand Sun is the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. The book studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the viewpoints of the atomic scientists. It is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs. The book's title is based on the verse from the Bhagavad Gita that J. Robert Oppenheimer is said to have recalled at the Trinity nuclear test.