Richard Rhodes wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about "The Making of" this, which is powered by fission
The Nobel 
Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe and his wife, Rose, have reported... [DOC] [TLE] The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary ... - Google Books [PAR] Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb ... on 
Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the ... 
of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, ... 
From nuclear power's earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G.