$24.95
Paperback, 6″ x 9″
384 pages
ISBN 978-1-63381-505-6
by Timothy Luehrman
Gilbert Broome’s parents taught him to own his mistakes. Sir Ernest Rutherford taught him atomic physics. By 1938, he is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and falling in love with a neighbor, Marie Becker. When fission is discovered, he refuses to perform research on atomic weapons until he learns that Germany is already working on a bomb. Reluctantly, he agrees to direct the American effort that will become the Manhattan Project and disappears for months. Just as he and Marie begin to repair their relationship, Gilbert is handed another difficult assignment and once again disappears. This time, as he studies the hideous threat of hydrogen fusion, he discovers something beautiful: star math. But will Broome’s math aid the bombmakers? Can he keep it secret? After a hydrogen bomb is tested in the Pacific, Gilbert wonders if the world would be safer without him.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Timothy Luehrman is a retired academic living in Belmont, Massachusetts, and Tenants Harbor, Maine. His winter hobby is curling.