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1) Hiroshima
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Physical Desc
886 p., [42] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012, c1986
Edition
25th anniversary ed., Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
838 p., [42] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
10) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
11) No place to hide
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
1949
Physical Desc
191 p. : ill., charts ; 20 cm.
Language
English
12) The bomb
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Language
English
Description
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
13) Stallion Gate
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith comes an epic story of a physicist, a general, a spy, and a hero who will change history forever.
In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer, the physicist; Groves, the general; Fuchs, the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter, musician, Indian. These four...
14) Hiroshima
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xix, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a riveting narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional and social challenges of post-atomic life.
16) The bomb
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
18) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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