Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
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- Synopsis
- A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On 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. repercussions can be felt to this very day.
- Copyright:
- 2005
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/07/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Stephen Walker.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction
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- Bookshare Import
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- This is a copyrighted book.