The Year of the Bomb

The Year of the Bomb
Title The Year of the Bomb PDF eBook
Author Ronald Kidd
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 210
Release 2009-06-09
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1416958924

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It's 1955, and Paul and his friends are excited when filming of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" begins in their small California town. But they soon become involved in a conspiracy that puts them in real danger.

Bomb (Graphic Novel)

Bomb (Graphic Novel)
Title Bomb (Graphic Novel) PDF eBook
Author Steve Sheinkin
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages 258
Release 2023-01-24
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1250291038

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A riveting graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book, Bomb—the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War. In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb. New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin's award-winning nonfiction book is now available reimagined in the graphic novel format. Full color illustrations from Nick Bertozzi are detailed and enriched with the nonfiction expertise Nick brings to the story as a beloved artist, comic book writer, and commercial illustrator who has written a couple of his own historical graphic novels, including Shackleton and Lewis & Clark. Accessible, gripping, and educational, this new edition of Bomb is perfect for young readers and adults alike. Praise for Bomb (2012): “This superb and exciting work of nonfiction would be a fine tonic for any jaded adolescent who thinks history is 'boring.' It's also an excellent primer for adult readers who may have forgotten, or never learned, the remarkable story of how nuclear weaponry was first imagined, invented and deployed—and of how an international arms race began well before there was such a thing as an atomic bomb.” —The Wall Street Journal “This is edge-of-the seat material that will resonate with YAs who clamor for true spy stories, and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school.” —The Bulletin (starred review) Also by Steve Sheinkin: Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War

The Year of Armageddon

The Year of Armageddon
Title The Year of Armageddon PDF eBook
Author Gordon Thomas
Publisher Granada
Total Pages 440
Release 1984
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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The Bomb

The Bomb
Title The Bomb PDF eBook
Author Theodore Taylor
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages 212
Release 2007
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780152061654

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In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, 14-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat, in this long-out-of-print novel by the acclaimed author of "The Cay."

The Bomb

The Bomb
Title The Bomb PDF eBook
Author Gerard DeGroot
Publisher Random House
Total Pages 436
Release 2011-09-30
Genre History
ISBN 1446449610

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Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling.

After the Bomb

After the Bomb
Title After the Bomb PDF eBook
Author Gloria D. Miklowitz
Publisher Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages 137
Release 1987
Genre Disasters
ISBN 9780590401555

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After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy

Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
Title Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy PDF eBook
Author Ray Acheson
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages 439
Release 2021-06-25
Genre Political Science
ISBN 178661491X

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Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. From scrappy organizing to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons, this book narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and developments in feminist disarmament activism. Acheson explains the process through which diplomats, activists, and nuclear survivors worked together to elevate the horrific humanitarian and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons, develop new international law categorically prohibiting the bomb, challenge the nuclear orthodoxy, and strengthen norms for disarmament and peace. Told from the perspective of a queer feminist antimilitarist organizer who was involved from the start of the process through to the treaty’s adoption, the book utilizes interviews with dozens of participants, as well as critical theoretical perspectives about transnational advocacy networks, discourse change, and intersectional feminist action. It is meant to provide useful insights for anyone trying to make change amidst structures of power and politics.