About the book: 1980 / Publisher's abstract: In 1980, the 35th anniversary of the greatest tragedy - the explosion of an atomic bomb over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book is dedicated to the history of the development of the atomic bomb in three countries - in Nazi Germany, in the USA and in the Soviet Union - countries different in their social nature and their goals. The work among the authors is distributed as follows: Introduction, Ch. 1, 2, 4-18, 20, 21, Conclusion written by A. I. Ioyrysh and I. D. Morokhov; Ch. 3 and 19 written by S. K. Ivanov.