The Manhattan Project: The Birth Of The Atomic Bomb By Its Creators, Eyewitnesses And Historians

Author: Cynthia C. Kelly

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  • : 9781579128081
  • : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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  • : March 2009
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The Manhattan Project (1942-1946) resulted in the development and detonation of the first nuclear weapons - and irrevocably changed the course of world events. Born out of a small research programme that began in 1939, the project would eventually employ more than 130,000 people and cost a total of nearly $2 billion - and it was operated under a shroud of deep secrecy. This authoritative book provides a complete and vivid history of the project and its legacy, from the widest array of perspectives and primary sources: secret documents, essays, articles, excerpts from histories, biographies, plays, novels, letters and oral histories.