Our First Atom Bomb: An All-American Story by Frederick Borsch, Borsch

Our First Atom Bomb: An All-American Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781440170195)

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Our First Atom Bomb: An All-American Story by Frederick Borsch, Borsch

Our First Atom Bomb: An All-American Story

$27.95
Our First Atom Bomb: An All-American Story by Frederick Borsch, Borsch

Our First Atom Bomb: An All-American Story

$27.95
Format: Hardcover
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What could it have been like to press the switch that dropped the world's first atomic bomb? What might have been going through the head of the All-American young man who had that responsibility on the Enola Gay? Complete with interviews with people like Colonel Paul Tibbets and those who knew Curtis LeMay and Tokyo Rose, this re-creation tells of the entire six hours that the mission took, from take-off at Tinian to that awesome moment over Hiroshima.

From an interview with Dr. Theodore McCluskey S.J.:

"I try to imagine being in his front seat position. Can you imagine putting anyone into that position? Making any human being responsible for that? Such power over death and life? No wonder he was mixed up. No wonder he wanted to think up a plan B, or, how did he put it?-to try to reshuffle the cards. I can understand why you and he would want to imagine things differently. Imagination is needed if we are going to see other possibilities in time of war."

Author: Borsch Frederick Borsch
ISBN-10: 1440170193
ISBN-13: 9781440170195
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2009
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

By Borsch Frederick Borsch
By Borsch Frederick Borsch
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With degrees from Princeton, Oxford, and the University of Birmingham (U.K.), Frederick Borsch has taught at several theological schools in the United States and abroad, and at Princeton University and Yale Divinity School. He lives both in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. He was ten when the first atom bomb fell.

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