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Paperback The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 Book

ISBN: 082630768X

ISBN13: 9780826307682

The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

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Winner of the 1986 Robert G. Athearn Award from the Western Historical Association

First published in 1984, this prize-winning history of the Manhattan Project is now available in paperback for the first time, fifty years after the explosion of the first atomic bomb.

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Fast service, clean book!

This may have been a used book but you never would have known it. Appreciate the fast service as well.

Wonderful account

This is an outstanding historical account of the Manhattan Project. I read it when I could see the lights of Los Alamos outside my kitchen window at night. Amazing work, and chilling developments, took place there. This is a well-researched documentary of those events.

The Blast that changed the world...

In THE DAY THE SUN ROSE TWICE, Ferenc Morton Szasz recounts the story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion that occurred on July 16, 1945. The author does an excellent job tracing critical details leading up to this historical process which changed American history and the world around us. The book is broken down into nine chapters beginning with the origins of Los Alamos. However, Szasz begins by discussing the conceptual revolutions of human knowledge during the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. The illustrations included in the book give the reader incredible insight into the actual events. "The ball of fire," a photograph taken of the nuclear explosion in New Mexico offers a visual effect of the actual event. Photographs of the people show the reader who was involved in the project. The map explains the large area in the state of New Mexico consumed for this project. Overall, I found the book to be easy to read, although I knew very little about the subject matter. I did, however, gain more insight into nuclear weapons. My favorite chapter was "The Blast." Szasz spoke to a number of people from all walks of life who experienced the blast of the Trinity. I chose this book as one of my book reviews for a special topics history class and found it to be an excellent read.

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