Weaving in the untold story of the father of the neutron bomb, Mike Daisey illuminates a time when atomic fire rewrote history and ushered in an age of American supremacy. Combining eye-opening research and witty autobiography, he bores into the dark heart of America to discover the meaning of security and the price we are willing to pay for it.

Created and performed by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory

Mike Daisey has earned critical acclaim for his many monologues, which include How Theater Failed America, Invincible Summer, Monopoly!, Truth, The Ugly American, I Miss the Cold War, Great Men of Genius, Wasting Your Breath and 21 Dog Years, and over the past decade he has performed his unique extemporaneous monologues at venues such as the Public Theater, American Repertory Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, the Noorderzon Festival, Portland Center Stage, Intiman, Performance Space 122 and many more. He’s been a guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman"; his work has been heard on the BBC, NPR and the National Lampoon Radio Hour; and his groundbreaking series "All Stories Are Fiction" is available through Audible. Currently he’s a commentator for PRI’s "Studio 360" and NPR’s "Day To Day"; a contributor to WIRED, Slate and Salon; a web contributor to Vanity Fair and Radar Magazine; and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. His first film, "Layover," is being distributed by Lars von Trier’s company Zentropa, and he stars in the Lawrence Krauser feature "Horrible Child." His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller’s Tale, was published by the Free Press, and he is working on a second book, Great Men of Genius, adapted from his monologues about genius and megalomania in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla and L. Ron Hubbard. He has been the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, two Seattle Times Footlight Awards and a MacDowell Fellowship.