Excerpted from Chain Reaction: The Hopeful History of Uranium by Lucy Jane Santos with permission from Pegasus Books. November 2024.

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Following up on her history of radium in “Half Lives” (2021), Lucy Jane Santos now focuses, in “Chain Reactions,” on the element that started this atomic revolution—uranium.

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The U.S. man-in-the-street had heard, but did not yet believe, that some day a scientist somewhere—perhaps in the U.S. —might press a button that would set up an atomic chain reaction and blow ...