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Shockwave: The Countdown to Hiroshima
ISBN-13:
9780719566264
ISBN-10:
0719566266
Edition:
New Ed
Author:
Stephen Walker
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
John Murray
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9780719566264
ISBN-10:
0719566266
Edition:
New Ed
Author:
Stephen Walker
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
John Murray
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Summary
Shockwave: The Countdown to Hiroshima (ISBN-13: 9780719566264 and ISBN-10: 0719566266), written by authors
Stephen Walker, was published by John Murray in 2006.
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A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world foreverOn a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race.Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three terrible weeks leading up to the wartime detonation of the atomic bomb—from the first successful test in the New Mexico desert to the cataclysm and its aftermath—presenting the story through the eyes of pilots, scientists, civilian victims, and world leaders who stood at the center of earth-shattering drama. It is a startling, moving, frightening, and remarkable portrait of an extraordinary event—a shockwave whose repercussions can be felt to this very day.
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