Sonneborn, Liz
The Manhattan Project Liz Sonneborn - New York : Chelsea House, 2011. - 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Milestones in world history .
Trinity -- Energy and the atom -- Sounding the alarm -- The project begins -- Life at Los Alamos -- Bombing Japan -- Welcoming the atomic age -- The legacy of the Manhattan Project.
During World War II, as Allied forces sought to combat the Axis powers by military means, recent advances in nuclear science led the US military to organize the Manhattan Project - a massive government-run programme to invent an atomic bomb. This book explores how the development and use of the bomb affected the course of WWII.
9781604134100 (hardcover) 1604134100 (hardcover)
2010028916
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History
Atomic bomb--History--United States
j355.8251190973044 Son 23
The Manhattan Project Liz Sonneborn - New York : Chelsea House, 2011. - 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Milestones in world history .
Trinity -- Energy and the atom -- Sounding the alarm -- The project begins -- Life at Los Alamos -- Bombing Japan -- Welcoming the atomic age -- The legacy of the Manhattan Project.
During World War II, as Allied forces sought to combat the Axis powers by military means, recent advances in nuclear science led the US military to organize the Manhattan Project - a massive government-run programme to invent an atomic bomb. This book explores how the development and use of the bomb affected the course of WWII.
9781604134100 (hardcover) 1604134100 (hardcover)
2010028916
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History
Atomic bomb--History--United States
j355.8251190973044 Son 23