[en] Presents a critical review of 'From Scientific Search to Atomic Energy - Modern Problems of Atomic Science and Technology in the USSR': The Interstate Printers and Publishers Inc. Danville, I11., 1975, 369 pp, S 17.50. This is an English translation of the 1972 Moscow 2nd edition of a book by A.M.Petrosyants, formerly head of the State Commission for the Application of Nuclear Energy. It ranges from the first European cyclotron built at Leningrad in 1935 to accelerators and nuclear fusion. (D.J.B.)