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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award Twenty-Five Years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly-or have been so misunderstood....

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. --From publisher's description....

A documdrama detailing the research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima.

"Legends say there's a world beneath this one where a dragon lies sleeping. They say be careful how you wake the dragon. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the most profound change in the history of human enterprise on Earth: the unleashing of the elemental force within uranium, the explosion of an atomic bomb, the unleashing of the dragon. The story of uranium is part science, part history and all epic adventure. From its creation in an...

"In the spring of 1943 thousands of men and women began arriving in a remote part of south central Washington State. They knew little about why the U.S. government had hired them--only that it was a top-secret project to support the war effort. In a race against time, workers began building a massive factory to produce plutonium for the nuclear weapon that ended World War II. It was one of the biggest gambles in American history and a project that...

An attempt to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth causes a catastrophic crack in the Earth's crust.

Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.

This book tells the story of what happened in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the city was destrobed by the first atom bomb.

When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow. While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project, the team that designed and created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War. On a school trip to Japan, Chris meets eighty-one-year-old Yuko,...

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.