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The day the sun rose twice : the story of the Trinity Site nuclear explosion, July 16, 1945 / Ferenc Morton Szasz.
LIBRA QC773.A1 S93 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.
- Atomic bomb--New Mexico--Los Alamos--History.
- Atomic bomb.
- History.
- Los Alamos (N.M.)--Description and travel.
- New Mexico--Los Alamos.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Trinity Site Nuclear explosion, July 16, 1945.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1984]
- Summary:
- 'In this tightly focused, lucidly written and thoroughly researched book, Ferenc Morton Szasz, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, describes the events, personalities and scientific processes that led to the detonation of the first atomic bomb in an isolated stretch of New Mexican desert...' ---New York Times Book Review
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 213-224.
- ISBN:
- 0826307671 :
- OCLC:
- 10779209
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