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"Much as Marcel Proust spun out a lifetime of memories from the taste of a madeleine, The Uranium Club spins out the history of Nazi Germany's failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium. It's a riveting tale of competing German ambitions and arrogant mistakes, a nonfiction thriller tracking teams of American scientists as they race to prevent Hitler from beating the United States to the atomic bomb." - Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube.. He recognized the mysterious object instantly - he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried - and failed - to build at the end of World War II.