atomic bomb

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atomic bomb

Blood and water

sabotaging Hitler's bomb
  • Kurzman, Dan
1997

Hiroshima

why the bomb was dropped
  • Jennings, Peter
2002
Examines the reasons behind the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan during World War II.

Weapons for victory

the Hiroshima decision fifty years later
  • Maddox, Robert James
1995

Tennozan

the Battle of Okinawa and the atomic bomb
  • Feifer, George
1992

Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

  • Coerr, Eleanor
1991
Sadako Sasaki is the victim of the Hiroshima bomb. Hospitalized for leukemia, she is reminded of a Japanese legend which says if you create a thousand paper cranes the gods will make you well.

Heisenberg's war

the secret history of the German bomb
  • Powers, Thomas
1993
Discusses the German nuclear research program and the Allied response to it.

The end of the world that was

six lives in the atomic age
  • Goldman, Peter Louis
1986
Relates the experiences of six people involved in the atomic bombing of Japan.

The day the sun rose twice

the story of the Trinity Site nuclear explosion, July 16, 1945
  • Szasz, Ferenc Morton
1984

GI guinea pigs

how the Pentagon exposed our troops to dangers more deadly than war : Agent Orange and atomic radiation
  • Uhl, Michael
1980

Hiroshima

  • Yep, Laurence
1995
Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.

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