Before the Fallout

Before the Fallout by Diana Preston recounts the history of the enthralling development of science and technology from 1898 when Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium to the development and construction of the atomic bomb in the early to mid-1940s. "Before the Fallout" is history at its best and compels the reader to consider the threats and moral dilemmas we all face in an ever more armed world.