The Manhattan Project: A Secret Wartime Mission

Compelling firsthand accounts from the inventors of the first atomic bomb describe the Manhattan Project. Additional accounts from scientists, reporters, and soldiers, among other primary sources, describe the development of the bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Selections include those from Einstein, Oppenheimer, Groves, Tibbets, William Laurence, John Hersey, and Enrico and Laura Fermi.

Author: Kenneth M. Deitch
Publisher: History Compass
Published: 06/07/2011
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9781878668417
ISBN10: 1878668412
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | Military | Nuclear Warfare

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