Books in the Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs series

This unique and monumental biography not only restores a central figure to history, it makes the crucial events he shaped accessible to a broader readership and gives contemporary readers a backdrop for understanding the fraught United StatesRussia relationship that still exists today.

Drawing on oral histories, internal laboratory documents, and the author's personal experiences from more than fifty years as a Lab employee, The American Lab is an illuminating history of the Lab and its revolutionary work.

A chilling tale of McCarthy-era machinations, this groundbreaking page-turner rewrites the history of the Cold War.