text: Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build―and Steal―the World's Most Dangerous Weapon - National Book Award YPL Finalist, The National Book Foundation
  Steve Sheinkin interviewed by Sofia Quintero
  Steve Sheinkin does us all a huge service by spotlighting the terrible planet-consuming threat of the hydrogen bomb, for the generation that must continue to control it. Bomb is a riveting account of the development of the unprecedented weapons that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, changing our world forever. It is brilliantly told, with an astonishing cast of scientists, soldiers, politicians, and traitors, and the breathtaking tension of a first-rate thriller.
  A former history textbook writer, Steven Sheinkin is a meticulous researcher who knows well how to grab a young reader's interest and hold it. In The Notorious Benedict Arnold, he introduced young readers to America's first great traitor. In Bomb, he turns his talents to the biggest spy story of the twentieth century: the race to build the first atomic weapon. He lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.