By Jim Ottaviani,Janine Johnston,Steve Lieber,Vince Locke,Bernie Mireault,Jeff Parker,Jeffrey Jones
Like its significant other volumes, the point of interest of Fallout is at the scientists themselves -- specifically J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard, whose lives supply a cautionary story concerning the uneasy alliance among the army, the govt., and the beginnings of "big science."
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