The incredible true story of the most terrifying weapon ever created, exhaustively researched and gripping as the recent TV series Chernobyl.

August 6, 1945: thousands in Hiroshima are instantaneously vaporized. A horrified world learns of the atom bomb. On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, this 450-page graphic novel tells the behind-the-scenes story of its historic creation. From Katanga’s uranium mines to Germany, Norway, the USSR, Mexico, and finally Japan unfolds a true saga of incredible events and larger-than-life figures, from the known (Roosevelt, Truman, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Fermi) to the forgotten: African American worker Ebb Cade (experimentally injected with plutonium without his knowing), General Leslie Groves (iron-fisted head of the Manhattan Project), and scientist Leo Szilard, our point-of-view character.