Countdown: 116 Days to the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

April 12, 1945. After several years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by the news of President Franklin Roosevelt's death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who had been excluded from war planning and knew nothing about the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world's first atomic bomb, must take command of a country fighting on multiple continents and make one of the most important decisions in history. The book "Countdown" tells the gripping story of the turbulent months, weeks, and days leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.