The Bastard Brigade: the true story of the renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the Nazi atomic bomb

摘要

New York Times' bestselling science writer Sam Kean's most recent book, The Bastard Brigade, is a story of intrigue and melodrama built around the World War 2 developments of the atomic bomb. Some of the best-known names in the history of theoretical chemistry are involved, but Kean's writing style, which usually provides anecdotes about significant discoveries, is relatively submerged. In Kean's own words, this book is more unified, more a novel, telling a larger overall story dealing with 'renegade scientists and spies who sabotaged the efforts of the Nazis' to produce weapons of war.