Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb - Couverture rigide

Christman, Al

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ISBN 10 : 1557501203 ISBN 13 : 9781557501202

Editeur : Naval Institute Press, 2014

Synopsis

For better or worse, Navy captain William S. ""Deak"" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of Little Boy during the flight to Hiroshima. As bomb commander, he approved the release of the bomb that forever changed the world. Yet over the past fifty years only fragments of his story have appeared, in part because of his own self-effacement and the nation's demand for secrecy. <br><br>Based on recently declassified Manhattan Project documents, including Parsons' logs and other untapped sources, this book offers an unvarnished account of this unsung hero and his involvement in some of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century.

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For most of his professional career, <strong>Al Christman</strong> was a writer and historian for the U.S. Navy. He is a former historian of Navy Laboratories. His books include <em>Sailors, Scientists and Rockets</em> and <em> Grand Experiment at Inyokern, Naval Innovators: 1776 to 1900</em>. As a combat engineer in the 99th Infantry Division, Christman saw action in World War II in the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge and the Ruhr Pocket. He was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and retired as major. He graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and English and from California State Dominguez Hills in the humanities. Show More

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Naval Institute Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1557501203
• ISBN 13: 9781557501202
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 305
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