Manu Riche and Patrick Marnham join forces to tell the story of the invention of the atomic bomb and its unintended consequences in todays world.nnThey follow the tracks of 2 historical characters who forged this story: German-born Aby Warburg, the heir to a banking dynasty who became an anthropologist and studied the Indians of Los Alamos, and Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant idealist who will always be known as the inventor of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.nnFrom New Mexico to Congo via Japan, Snake Dance offers a compelling reflection on the Promethean dimensions of nuclear power.