CONTENTS

PART ONE: A EUROPEAN BEGINNING

CHAPTER ONE: All That Glitters

CHAPTER TWO: A Shy and Quiet Girl

CHAPTER THREE: A Life in Learning

CHAPTER FOUR: Power Couple

CHAPTER FIVE: In Exile

CHAPTER SIX: A Secret Project

PART TWO: BOMB MAKING IN AMERICA

CHAPTER SEVEN: Two of a Kind

CHAPTER EIGHT: The General and the Scientist

CHAPTER NINE: American Life

CHAPTER TEN: Recruiting

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Leona

CHAPTER TWELVE: Coworkers

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Reactor

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Diz

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Professor and the Apprentice

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Chicago Pile-1

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Los Alamos Visit

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Coming to America

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Trinity

CHAPTER TWENTY: The End and the Beginning

AUTHOR’S NOTE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SCIENTIFIC TIMELINE