Breakdown 
Subtitle: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb Was Stolen
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780865343047
Subjects: History; Security measures; Physics; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Atomic And Nuclear Physics; Physics Research; Politics / Current Events; Science; New Mexico; Science/Mathematics; USA; Military - Intelligence/Espionage; Military - Nuclear Warfare; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; Atomic bomb; Los Alamos; Los Alamos Scientific Laborato; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
First sentence: Lieutenant Colonel Stanley L. Stewart's words, uttered within days of the Japanese surrender on August 15, 1945, were widely believed in the United States military and in the nation as a whole at the end of World War II Without the tightest security at Los Alamos, how could the United States have secretly developed a highly technical nuclear weapon at the cost of millions of dollars and the labor of thousands of loyal Americans?