Author

Books by Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes is an American author and journalist whose work spans nuclear history, science, and American culture. He has written more than twenty books, including the follow-up volumes Dark Sun (about the hydrogen bomb) and Arsenals of Folly (about the Cold War arms race). The Making of the Atomic Bomb won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1988. Rhodes has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He lives in Northern California.