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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• 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