The bombing of Hiroshima / by John Malam.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dates with historyPublisher: Mankato, MN : Smart Apple Media, 2002Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Juvenile
ISBN:
  • 1583402136 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54/25 21
LOC classification:
  • D767.25.H6 M25 2002
Contents:
The search for a super-bomb -- Splitting the atom -- America enters the war -- The Manhatten Project -- Testing the atomic bomb -- An important meeting -- A secret plan -- The target cities -- Hiroshima is bombed -- Death of a city and its people -- Nagasaki is bombed.
Summary: Relates how scientists in several countries over a period of many years conducted research that ultimately led to the invention of the atomic bomb, which was then used against Japan in the hope of ending World War II.
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Books Books John Tomay Memorial Library JNF J 940.54 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3GTPL00055416T

Includes index.

The search for a super-bomb -- Splitting the atom -- America enters the war -- The Manhatten Project -- Testing the atomic bomb -- An important meeting -- A secret plan -- The target cities -- Hiroshima is bombed -- Death of a city and its people -- Nagasaki is bombed.

Relates how scientists in several countries over a period of many years conducted research that ultimately led to the invention of the atomic bomb, which was then used against Japan in the hope of ending World War II.

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