Bomb , bd

472

pages

English

2023

Écrit par
Bollee Laurent-Frederic Bollee , Alcante Didier Alcante ,
traduit par Hahnenberger Ivanka Hahnenberger

Publié par
ABRAMS BOOKS

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472

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Ebook

2023

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Date de parution

11 juillet 2023

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781647005306

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

70 Mo

From the Big Bang to Hiroshima, the incredible story of the most disastrous weapon ever inventedOn August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were pulverized, and everything within four square miles was instantly destroyed. A deluge of flames and ash had just caused Japan's greatest trauma and changed the course of modern warfare and life on Earth forever. The world was horrified by the existence of the bomb-the first weapon of mass destruction. But how could such an appalling tool be invented? To answer this question, Alcante, Laurent-Frederic Bollee, and Denis Rodier return to the origins of its main component, uranium, and shed light on the scientific discoveries around this element and its uses both civilian and military. Sifting through the history, from Katanga to Japan, through Germany, Norway, the USSR, and New Mexico,The Bomb is a succession of incredible but true stories. Alcante, Bollee, and Rodier have created an exhaustive and definitive work of nonfiction that details the stories of the unsung players as well as the remarkable men and women who are at the crux of its history and the events that followed.

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