When once-in-a-lifetime events occur, people often are able to recall vividly where they were or what they were doing when they first learned of the event. Former British Ambassador to the Soviet Union and author Rodric Braithwaite opens with a story of a childhood train ride in August 1945 when news of Hiroshima's devastation broke. In the time since, his curiosity about what the scientists, weapon designers, military men, and politicians thought they were doing in 1945 and the decades since led him to conduct his own research and catalog the results in Armageddon and Paranoia.
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