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Making of the nuclear age volume 1
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English
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award**
The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
This sweeping account...
The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
This sweeping account...
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English
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After the Nazis occupy all of Norway, they gain access to a weapon that could end the war: a nuclear bomb. With the discovery of the plans for a bombing, the Allies aim to destroy the power plant that holds the ingredients. But when plans fail, a group of Norwegians must take over the plans and commit the greatest act of sabotage of World War II.
6) The day the world went nuclear: dropping the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific
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2017.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. Newly inaugurated president Harry Truman faces the most important political decision in history: whether to...
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The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant 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.
American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist
...11) The bomb
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the most powerful and destructive device ever invented. With newly restored footage, go behind the scenes of the first atomic bomb, revealing how it was developed and how it changed the planet. Examine the choices society has made since 1945, and continues to make, to live with an invention that could destroy the planet.
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PBS Home Video]
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Creole poems: History Detectives ventures into the little known world of the Creoles of Color to unlock a family mystery.
Galleon shipwreck: History Detectives unlock the clues to decipher where a chunk of beeswax came from and which ship may have brought it to the Oregon Coast.
Manhattan Project patent: History Detectives discovers a plan to hide atomic secrets in plain sight.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex intellectual life of America's most fascinating and elusive scientist, the father of the atomic bomb. As a young professor at Berkeley, the wealthy, cultured Oppenheimer finally came into his own...
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