Richard Rhodes wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about "The Making of" this, which is powered by fission
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National 
Book ... That only in December of 1938 was the fission of Uranium first 
discovered,... [DOC] [TLE] Richard Rhodes - Wikipedia [PAR] Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist and 
author of both ... Rhodes wrote about his childhood in A Hole in the World.