Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, is currently in press and due for publication by Doubleday on 29 November 2011. It tells the story of the Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamarr's invention of frequency-hopping radio, a technology she put to use, working with the avant-garde composer George Antheil, in designing and patenting a jam-proof, radio-controlled torpedo. She donated the patent to the U.S. Navy in 1942. The Navy ignored it, but in the early 1950s it was taken up by a defense contractor and applied to a submarine listening device. Then other defense contractors used it to make jam-proof radio systems for the U.S. military. In the early 1980s, when the military declassified it, it became the basis for Bluetooth, GPS, wireless telephones and many other present-day communication systems. Hedy was proud of her contribution. It's a charming and fascinating story, with many twists and turns. Motion-picture rights have already been optioned. I finished writing a fourth and last volume of nuclear history, The Twilight of the Bombs, in mid-August 2009.The book was published on 24 August 2010 and is currently available in paperback. It examines the post-Cold War years after 1991, securing the former Soviet nuclear arsenal, the first Iraq War, nuclear proliferation, North Korea, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the run-up to the second Iraq War and the prospects for nuclear abolition. With the completion of this last volume, my quartet of nuclear histories, The Making of the Nuclear Age, comprehends the story of the introduction of a historic new technology across more than one hundred years. Arsenals of Folly, a third volume of nuclear history that follows my The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995), was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2007. It carries the story of the superpower nuclear arms race and the dangers and challenges of the Cold War from 1949 up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, focusing especially on the Reagan-Gorbachev decade of the 1980s. Reykjavik, my play based on the historic summit meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 11 - 12 October 1986, is receiving staged readings nationwide. Click on Appearances for dates and times. Paul Newman advised me on writing Reykjavik; he read the third draft just weeks before his death. He was a warm, modest, decent, generous man; his death on 27 September 2008 carried away one of the good people of the world. Reykjavik is dedicated to him.