A Chemist in the White House: From the Manhattan Project to the End of the Cold War

"A Chemist in the White House: From the Manhattan Project to the End of the Cold War" is a book by Glenn T. Seaborg, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist. The book chronicles Seaborg's extensive career, from his pivotal role in the Manhattan Project during World War II, where he was instrumental in the discovery and isolation of plutonium, to his later service as a scientific advisor to multiple U.S. presidents and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. It details his involvement in nuclear chemistry, the development of nuclear energy and weapons, and his advocacy for nuclear arms control throughout the Cold War era. The book also touches upon his contributions to the discovery of numerous transuranium elements, for which he was honored with the naming of element seaborgium in his name.12