The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb

(Part of the Revolutions in Science Series)

by Jeff Hughes

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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

Related Subjects

Business & Management History History & Philosophy Military Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Nuclear Nuclear Physics Physics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Technology Weapons & Warfare World

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