Nuclear Dawn: The Atomic Bomb from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War

by James P. Delgado

Book Overview

Winner - Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title When President Obama and others say they want to end America's dependence on foreign oil, the vision is usually presented in terms of "a new Manhattan Project." So what really was the Manhattan Project? According to James Delgado, at the start of the project in 1942, the element plutonium only existed in microscopic quantities. By June 16, 1945, the date of the world's first nuclear bomb test,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846033969
• ISBN13: 9781846033964
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.6"