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1) Hiroshima
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An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it.
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This is a novel about the most important ten seconds in history.
Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general;...
Stallion Gate, a magnificent successor to Gorky Park, is a powerful sensual idyll, a blend of love and betrayal, of humor and cultures in collision, of jazz and war.
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select the test site for the first automatic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general;...
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The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation--an icon of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. He created a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen...
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From 1951 to 1992, more than 900 atomic bombs were tested at the Nevada Test Site, located in the desert approximately 75 miles north of Las Vegas. These tests evaluated the effectiveness of both atmospheric and underground atomic weapons, and they led to the development of more powerful bombs. Atmospheric tests were discontinued after the United States, along with the Soviet Union and Great Britain, signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963.
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Since the end of World War II, assessments of Imperial Japan's military capability have indicated that the country was years away from building an atomic weapon. This A&E Special shatters that view, offering evidence that Japan had world-class nuclear physicists, access to uranium ore, cyclotrons to process it into a bomb, and submarines capable of carrying and launching airplanes to deliver it. The sobering conclusion is that Japan may have been...
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Beyond the understanding that it would result in large numbers of casualties, not much was known about the long-term effects of nuclear radiation when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. U.S. officials confiscated Japanese videos of bomb victims, and began to study survivors to determine how their bodies responded to the exposure to radiation. Scientists also studied the soil in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and charted the...
11) Trinity: a novel
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"From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer--father of the atomic bomb--as told by seven fictional characters J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic bomb...
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At the start of World War II the United States conducted secret research on nuclear fission in the quest to develop the atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was successfully tested in New Mexico. On August 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman authorized the drop of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, swiftly ending World War II. No atomic weapon has been detonated in wartime since.
14) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
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A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
17) Los Alamos
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer ’s “enchanted...
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer ’s “enchanted...
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In 1964 Mao Zedong's People's Republic became the fifth nation to test a nuclear weapon, changing the balance of power in eastern Asia, and the rest of the world, forever. Set against the backdrop of the developing Cold War, this documentary uses personal interviews and extraordinary archival footage in its dramatic account of the making of China's first atomic bomb. Acclaimed director Peter Du Cane weaves historical data with human logistics as he...