This book is no Making of the Atomic Bomb, but it is still an excellent account of the history of the H-Bomb. It continues exactly where the Making of the Atomic Bomb ended and it proceeds to tell the history of not the H-bomb but the start of the Cold War. With Russian espionage, first Soviet atomic bomb, Berlin air lift and the Korean war the Cold War started and just like with the Atomic Bomb previously, fear and uncertainty gave the true reasons to make the H-Bomb, for it's history is unavoidably linked with these events.


... Otherwise it would have been a very short book.