Dark sun / Rhodes, Richard

The secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made, how it became the defining issue of the Cold War, and how close the world came to nuclear destruction before the U.S. and the former Soviet Union learned the lesson of nuclear stalemate.

Presents the history of how and why the hydrogen bomb was created, revealing the behind-the-scenes scientific and political drama in which the United States and the former Soviet Union played major roles.