Written in the shadow of Hiroshima, The Accident traces the ripple effects of radiation exposure through scientists, officials and families caught inside systems of secrecy.

A landmark Cold War novel examining the human and political consequences of a nuclear incident in post-war America. Dexter Masters, a former science editor, approaches catastrophe with clinical precision, revealing how containment operates as both technical procedure and moral posture. Less spectacle than slow-burn reckoning, this is mid-century fiction at its most controlled and unsettling.

For readers interested in nuclear history, Cold War literature, science and ethics, and twentieth-century political fiction.