Title: Lots of technical "howlers"
Product review: I am giving this book two stars because it is an interesting and compelling story. But the technical errors are far too many and too serious to allow me to recommend it to anyone with a technical background. Some examples: (1) neutrons emitted from a fissioning nucleus at the speed of light (only massless particles can go the speed of light) and (2) US F-16's carrying Stinger missiles (they carry air-to-air Sidewinders not shoulder-fired Stingers). The author does not understand the simplest physics of nuclear reactors or weapons even though he could have gotten the information easily from Richard Rhodes "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Since the author got so many things wrong that would have been easy to find out, I have to wonder how many other kinds of errors were made that I didn't catch.
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