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Book review:

Countdown 1945:

The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb

and the 116 Days That Changed the World

by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss

New York: Avid Reader Press, 2020

312 pages

There is quite tolerable intensity in Countdown 1945, in tandem with the horror of the use of the atomic bomb in Japan at the end of World War II.

There are gripping revelations from all of the principals involved in the development of the bomb and the decision to use it. There is dialogue more or less on every page. Countdown 1945 is not so much a book as it is the integration of tales told by the men and women who were there, doing it, and living through it.

This is one of the very few books I’ve read from cover to cover in the past several years.

It was a learning experience, and I was completely aware that I was vicariously sharing the terrible experiences of the folks who had anything to do with Little Boy and Fat Man.

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