The Berlin Project (novel)

The Berlin Project is a 2017 science fiction alternate history novel by American writer Gregory Benford. It was first published in May 2017 in the United States by Saga Press, a division of Simon & Schuster. The novel was nominated for the 2018 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

The Berlin Project is set in an alternate history during World War II in which the American atomic program completes the atomic bomb a year earlier than in reality, enabling it to be deployed against Germany and bring about a premature end to the war. Many of the characters in the novel are historical figures, including Karl P. Cohen, Harold Urey, Leslie Groves, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson, Moe Berg, Werner Heisenberg, Wilhelm Canaris and Erwin Rommel.