# Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown - Hardcover

by **Steve Sheinkin** (Author)

**_New York Times_ bestselling author Steve Sheinkin** **presents a follow up to his award-winning book** **_Bomb: The Race to Build_**_**\--**_**_and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon_, taking readers on a terrifying journey into the Cold War and our mutual assured destruction.**

As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night.

The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed towards each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third--and final--world war.  
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Winner of the 2022 Kids' Book Choice Award for 6th to 8th Grade Book of the Year**  
**A _Shelf Awareness_ Best Children's Book of 2021  
****A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2021  
A _Horn Book_ Fanfare Best Book of the Year**

**Praise for BOMB:**

**A Newbery Honor book**  
**A National Book Awards finalist for Young People's Literature**  
**A _Washington Post_** **Best Kids Books of the Year title**

"This is edge-of-the seat material that will resonate with YAs who clamor for true spy stories, and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school." --_BCCB, **starred review**_

"...reads like an international spy thriller, and that's the beauty of it." --_School Library Journal, **starred review**_

"\[A\] complicated thriller that intercuts action with the deftness of a Hollywood blockbuster." --_Booklist,_ _, **starred review**_

"A must-read..." --_Publishers Weekly, **starred review**_

"A superb tale of an era and an effort that forever changed our world." --_Kirkus_

Also by Steve Sheinkin:

_**The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery**_  
_**The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights**_  
_**Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team**_  
**_Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War_**  
**_Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion_**  
**_King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution_**  
_**Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War  
**_**_Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America_**

### Author Biography

**Steve Sheinkin** is the acclaimed author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories for young readers, including _Born to Fly_; _Undefeated;_ _Most Dangerous_; _The Port Chicago 50_; _Bomb_; and _The Notorious Benedict Arnold_. His accolades include a Newbery Honor, three Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, a Sibert Medal, and three National Book Award finalist honors. Sheinkin lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and two children.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 8.9 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 07, 2021

**Award:** Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (2022)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown

**Interest Level:** Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up

**Reading Level:** 6.6

**Point Value:** 11

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