the atomic bomb
Title: the atomic bomb
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the atomic bomb
In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor the Manhattan Project--the
name given to the atomic bomb program because its original offices were in
Manhattan--grew very quickly. And although the Army had been involved since June of
1942, it was just beginning to realize that someone was going to have to be put in overall
charge. The man chosen was Leslie Richard Groves, a 46-year-old colonel in the Army
Corps of Engineers.
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showed last 75 words of 3457 total…the genetic damage--did not really show up for
several years. The atomic bomb was not just a bigger bomb; it totally changed the face of
warfare.
Bibliography
Bibliography
“Atomic Bomb.” Encyclopedia Brittanica: Science and Tecnology Illustrated. 1984.
“Atomic Bomb.” McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 1992.
Cohen, Daniel. The Manhattan Project. Brookfield, Connecticut: The Millbrook Press,
1999.
Kunetka, James W. City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Birth of the Atomic Age,
1943-1945. Englewood, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978
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