Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age a pulse-pounding new novel set

a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father--an ardent pacifist--and his grandfather

in a beautifully rendered translation by Robert Hass and David Frick

each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding

" --The New York Times

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age a pulse-pounding new novel setThe thrilling and terrifying seventy year story "kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable" (Patchen Barss) of the physicists that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1896 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that exposed the plates: it was the first documented evidence of spontaneous radioactivity. So