There’s a strange irony in the history of the atomic bomb: the most famous scientist on Earth, the man whose equation unlocked the very possibility of nuclear energy, wanted absolutely nothing to do with the weapon it birthed. At the dawn of the nuclear age, while governments scrambled, generals strategised and physicists raced against time, Albert Einstein was the one man who stepped back. And not out of fear, but out of principle. This is the true human story behind the mushroom cloud that eventually emerged and killed thousands, if not millions. This is the story of why, Einstein, the...