Chanders, There will be lot of folks reading- or pretending to read- “American Prometheus”- as Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” hits the big screen.
But let me also put in a plug for Richard Rhodes “Making of the Atomic Bomb,” one of the great non-fiction books of the 20th century, up there with “The Power Broker” and Taylor Branch’s books on MLK.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/1451677618