The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb

The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb

Jeff Hughes
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Author:  Jeff Hughes
Condition:  Used, Like New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  192
Publisher:  Icon Books Ltd
Year:  2002
ISBN:  9781840463767

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Established in 1942, the Manhattan Project brought together an international team of scientists in a top secret quest: beating the Nazis to the atomic bomb. Their 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. In one terrible swoop humans could now kill potentially millions of fellow humans. It was the dawn of a new age - in war, in politics and, so Jeff Hughes deftly explains, in science.

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