Randolph "Dilda" Carter

I finally abandoned this after 200 pages. I NEVER do that, but I'm too old now to waste my life on things I'm not interested in. At least for the 200 pages I read there was precious little about the making of the hydrogen bomb and skimming the rest gave little hope. If you were interested in the espionage behind the atomic programs you might like this book, however I found the narrative so dull I simply could not ever connect with it; who stole this, who met whom on what day, simply tedious. For what it is worth it is exhaustively (literally) researched and footnoted. It is fairly politically biased as well.

My copy is a signed first edition and it was a gift so it just goes back on the shelf not in the bin.