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1) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Fox News Sunday anchor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP investigative journalist present a behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings, global events, leadership decisions, and civilian realities that led to the Hiroshima bombing.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videdisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in the '50s, American and Soviet scientists engaged in a dangerous race to see who could build and detonate the world's largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a bomb could be built. Following is an epic story where the United States led the way, but then left the field clear for the Soviet Union to break all records.
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