The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico

by Janet Farrell Brodie

2024 Southwest Book of the Year

On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Immensely more powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bomb's effects on the surrounding and downwind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496232976
• ISBN13: 9781496232977
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"