Cambridge/NY: Cambridge University Press, Date: 1993. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 509pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/silver; PON otherwise fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ pink w/blk.&white-pic.cover; slight rub. "This book tells the story of how the Los Alamos scientists responded to the spontaneous fission crisis they faced more than a year after the start of Project Y and how this response to the possible failure of the plutonium weapon motivated them to take a new approach to research that enabled building both of the first two atomic bombs." some illus. 1993. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521441323 9780521441322 [US]