Atom Bomb Angel

Author : Peter James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447255984
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atom Bomb Angel written by Peter James and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atom Bomb Angel is a reissued early thriller from multi-million-copy bestselling author, Peter James. Terrorists are threatening to sabotage Britain's nuclear power plants. One nuclear explosive smuggled inside a reactor would turn the entire core into a massive atom bomb . . . and bring death and disease to millions of people for centuries to come. When Sir Isaac Quoit, chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority, disappears without trace, MI5 are alerted to the mysterious Operation Angel. Slick superspy Max Flynn is briefed to crack the code - but can he beat the deadline before Angel strikes? Who are the terrorists? Why are the KGB involved? What are their aims and which power stations will they sabotage? If he does not act fast, Britain will be engulfed in a nuclear nightmare.

Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451677618
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Atomic Bomb written by Richard Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.

Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590208338
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiroshima written by Laurence Yep and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of August 6, 1945, an American bomber, the Enola Gay, roars down the runway of the Pacific island, Tinian. Its target is Hiroshima, Japan. Its cargo is an atom bomb. The same morning, twelve-year-old Sachi and her classmates tear down houses. It is their way of contributing to the war effort. Suddenly, a teacher yells "B-29! B-29!" There is a blinding light like the sun, a boom like a giant drum. The Enola Gay has dropped an atom bomb over Hiroshima. Will Sachi ever see her family again? Book jacket.

Author : Lindsey A. Freeman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607798
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Atom Bomb in Me written by Lindsey A. Freeman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge contains the world's largest supply of fissionable uranium. The granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present.

Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780684813783
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Atomic Bomb written by Richard Rhodes and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1986 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.

Author : Jeffrey K. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449092659
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Sky written by Jeffrey K. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1945, the world was introduced to the horrific consequences of nuclear warfare. On the sixth day of August, an American B-29 bomber dropped a revolutionary new weapon, the atomic bomb, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The catastrophic detonation instantly killed over 100,000 residents of the city, with thousands more dying from explosion-related injuries in the months and years to follow. Three days later, a second nuclear weapon was released over the skies of Nagasaki, killing over 40,000 Japanese citizens, most of whom were civilians. Six days after the second nuclear attack, the Empire of Japan surrendered, and World War II was ended. Jubilation among the Allied countries was tempered by a profound sense of relief; nearly four years of bloody war had finally come to an end. Some 406,000 Americans died during World War II, while another 671,000 were wounded. By the end of the war, an astonishing one out of every one hundred thirty six Americans had been killed or wounded in the fighting. American military personnel, along with their spouses, children, parents, and friends, were eager to see the bloody conflict come to and end, by any means possible. Consequently, President Harry Truman's decision to utilize the atomic bomb to bring Japan to its knees was wildly popular in the weeks and months that followed the Japanese surrender. In the six plus decades since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, many have questioned both the necessity and morality of America's deployment of the bomb. Significantly influenced by revisionist history, passionate debate has focused on the justification for nuclear warfare to subdue an enemy already nearing defeat. Like so many other momentous events, the reader must balance the reality of the world in 1945 against the seemingly clearer prism of revisionist history. Fire in the Sky: The Story of the Atomic Bomb chronicles the development and use of the first atomic bombs. This is a remarkable story about the lives and times of the brilliant scientists, seasoned military officers, and determined government leaders, who reshaped history, and irrevocably changed the dynamics of warfare.

Author : Cynthia C. Kelly
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781579127473
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Manhattan Project written by Cynthia C. Kelly and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings--including essays, articles, and excerpts from biographies, plays, novels, letters, and oral histories--explores the history of the Manhattan Project and analyzes its legacy.

Author : Victoria Sherrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560065852
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Atom Bomb written by Victoria Sherrow and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses various topics connected to the production of the atom bomb, including the development of nuclear energy, work on atomic weapons at the Los Alamos and other sites, and the decision to use the first atomic bomb during World War II.

Author : Larry Whitler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411660803
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oreo And Braun "Xob the Full Circle Quest" written by Larry Whitler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two nine year old boys, named Oreo and Braun, accidentally discover a time portal when they attempt to return a walking cane to an old man in the restroom of a restaurant. They step back into 1941 but are unable to return to their own time (1996) when they carry the cane through the doorway. In the process the boys meet a series of characters and some important lessons are learned including the absurdity of prejudice.

Author : Sandrone Dazieri
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501174665
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill the Angel written by Sandrone Dazieri and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From internationally bestselling author Sandrone Dazieri and featuring “two of the most intriguing detectives to have emerged in recent years” (Daily Mail, London) comes the “explosive” (Booklist, starred review) second thriller in the Caselli and Torre series. In Rome, a passenger train speeds into the city’s main station, its first-class car full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. The police then receive a claim of responsibility and the threat of more murders to come. But neither Caselli nor her eccentrically brilliant ally, Dante Torre, are ready to buy the terrorist link. As the two unconventional investigators chip away at what the perpetrator wants everyone to believe, they put their own lives in jeopardy. But Dante’s bizarre and traumatic past enables him to see what others miss, and in this case, to connect with a kindred spirit of sorts, a woman named Giltine who also experienced an intense trauma—one from which she emerged damaged and full of murderous intent. Making her especially lethal is that the rare mental illness she suffers from has her believing she’s already dead. When Colomba and Dante find themselves on the outs with law enforcement they’re entirely on their own, faced with the responsibility of making sure the waters of Venice don’t turn red with blood.