The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb

by F.G. Gosling and U.S. Department of Energy

Book Overview

In a national survey at the turn of the millennium, journalists and historians ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb and the surrender of Japan to end the Second World War as the top story of the twentieth century. The advent of nuclear weapons, brought about by the Manhattan Project, not only helped bring an end to World War II but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war-the Cold War-would be fought. The Manhattan Project also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516908228
• ISBN13: 9781516908226
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"