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The Technocrat's Intellectual Review:

The Story of the Atom

by M.B. Freeman and I.M. Freeman

This is the book that made me what I am today: A nerd.

Well maybe not a NERD, but definitely a Maths-Science technocrat kind of guy.

This is a children's book. I read it as a child and it started me on the road to being interested in science. It might seem a little strange to have a children's book about nuclear physics but why not? Children love to find out about new things, and a solid grounding now is the best way to set them up to cruise through highschool.

Now I'm not saying that children should be forced to read textbooks about subjects that they find boring, but this book is not the least bit dull. The history of nuclear science is a historical and wartime detective story, and this book presents it in a way that will light up any little child's mind. Just make sure that they don't get TOO excited and start setting up particle accelerators in the back shed. (I tried, but could never get a decent airtight seal on the coke-can vacuum chambers.)

So if you have children of your own, and want them to grow up into clever little academic achievers, this is what they need. If you don't have any kids, but have some antinuclear, antitechnology type relatives, give it to THEIR kids for even more fun. Order The Story of the Atom

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