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Heisenberg’s War, by Thomas Powers (Knopf, 608 pp., $27.50)

HIROSHIMA has become the apex of the mountain of images that form the world’s vision of the nuclear age. But at the inception of the Manhattan Project, few imagined that Japan would be part of the picture. The race for The Bomb began with Hitler’s rise rather than the ascendancy of militarism in Japan—the uranium atom was first split in Berlin.

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Heisenberg’s War, by Thomas Powers (Knopf, 608 pp., $27.50)

HIROSHIMA has become the apex of the mountain of images that form the world’s vision of the nuclear age. But at the inception of the Manhattan Project, few imagined that Japan would be part of the picture. The race for The Bomb began with Hitler’s rise rather than the ascendancy of militarism in Japan—the uranium atom was first split in Berlin.