The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Manhattan is the extreme case of science, capital, state, and urgency aligned.
Rhodes follows the whole arc — from Szilard conceiving the chain reaction at a London traffic light in 1933 to an industrial state employing well over a hundred thousand people, most of whom never knew what they were building. The master narrative of science becoming state-scale execution: talent, capital, secrecy, logistics, and a deadline fused into one machine.