atomic bomb

"Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the atomic bomb. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research"--Amazon.com.

"Yuriko is happy growing up in Hiroshima when it's just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is only getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable. World War II is coming to an end, and Japan's fate is not entirely clear, with any battle losses being hidden from its people. Yuriko is used to the sirens and air raid drills, but things start to feel more real when the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the atomic bomb hits Hiroshima, it's through Yuriko's twelve-year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror"--Dust jacket.

When Christian Deaver learns that his great-grandfather was part of the team that built the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II, he encounters a Hiroshima survivor and tries to make amends.

Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape soon after the bombing of Hiroshima.

Recounts the experiences of the scientists, technicians, and families stationed at the site that planned and built the first atomic bomb, also known as the Manhattan Project.

Details the events leading up to and after the bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II, and provides a history of these cities and their environs.

Account of the catastrophic event that heralded the coming of the atomic age.

Examines the dropping of the atomic bombs, from three different perspectives.

"The world's greatest scientists gather in a secret town in the desert to develop the atomic bomb."--.

Explores the disaster of "Bravo," the twelfth nuclear bomb test-detonated by the United States in the region of the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the fallout of which drifted on the wind and radioactively contaminated the island of Rongelap. Explores the aftermath of the disaster and its effects on the region and its citizens, who suffered radiation poisoning and to this day cannot return to their ancestral homes.