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A new history of the Manhattan Project

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James Robins
Sep 08, 2025
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FOR THE WASHINGTON POST, I’ve reviewed Garrett Graff’s new book The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb. It’s a very handsome and fine-looking book, but its contents—and the form of oral history itself—forbid the kind of clear analysis and condemnation this subject demands:

As soon as the defeat of…

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