The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb

by Jeff Hughes

Book Overview

Launched in 1942, the Manhattan Project was a well-funded, secret effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis. The results--the bombs named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"--were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945. A vast state within a state, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people and cost the United States and its allies 2 billion dollars, but its contribution to science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231131526
• ISBN13: 9780231131520
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 7.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher