
The Wretched Atom
Winner of the 2022 Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction, with the following citation:
“The Wretched Atom is packed with discoveries that will interest author Jacob Darwin Hamblin’s academic peers, carried along in a thrilling narrative page-turner sure to also ensnare lay readers. This exploration of the United States government’s multi-decade strategy of cloaking the testing and proliferation of thermonuclear weapons within the promise of the atom’s constructive potential is fascinating and immensely readable. Hamblin’s deep research into materials previously unexplored by scholars, and in some cases nearly unknown even to the repositories that house them, inspires and satisfies.” — Paula Becker, Judge