The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516908226)

In a national survey at the turn of the millennium, journalists and historians ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb and the surrender of Japan to end the Second World War as the top story of the twentieth century. The advent of nuclear weapons, brought about by the Manhattan Project, not only helped bring an end to World War II but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war-the Cold War-would be fought. The Manhattan Project also became the organizational model behind the impressive achievements of American "big science" during the second half of the twentieth century, which demonstrated the relationship between basic scientific research and national security.

Author: U. S. Department of Energy, Francis G. Gosling
ISBN-10: 1516908228
ISBN-13: 9781516908226
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2015
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.26d