Richard Rhodes
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes has also won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Prize, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and MacArthur foundations and the ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on ...
 A complete account of the aircraft from start to finish: Plenty of titles have mentioned the Enola Gay and its pivotal role in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Norman Polmar's The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima goes a [... more]
CDN$31.50
Amazon CA |
Clive A. Lawton
The Story of the First Atom Bomb "My God, what have we done?" - Copilot of the ENOLA GAY, after dropping the first atomic bomb Clive A. Lawton [... more]
Random House |
Takayuki Ishii
The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who died as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima. Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on ... [... more]
Random House |
Gar Alperovitz
Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against Japan. Alperovitz criticizes one of the most hotly debated precursory events to the Cold War, an event that was largely responsible ... [... more]
Random House |
Richard P. Feynman
Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century - from his work on the atomic bomb to his solution to the puzzle of the Challenger disaster; Feynman helped to shape the world as we know it. Nobel laureate, iconoclastic ... [... more]
Random House |
The Hunt for Zero Point
This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers. The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government ... [... more]
Random House |
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Not a disappointment at all!: I know a lot of U2 fans out there seem to be disappointed with their latest album, HTDAAB, but I'm not. I think it's almost a throw back to their 80s albums, which is a good thing. City Of Blinding Lights, in particular, has [... more]
CDN$15.99
Amazon CA |
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
The Momentum of Martial Logic: Although the issue remains controversial it is important to consider the historical background given here for the decision to drop the bomb. After the account here it is impossible to take conventional wisdom for granted [... more]
CDN$25.00
Amazon CA |
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: In the salad days of nuclear-weapons testing, the United States detonated 331 atomic, hydrogen, and thermonuclear bombs. Many of those explosions appear in Trinity and Beyond, which utilizes a lot of declassified footage, most of it in [... more]
CDN$29.98
Amazon CA |
Making of the Atomic Bomb
From Amazon.com: If the first 270 pages of this book had been published separately, they would have made up a lively, insightful, beautifully written history of theoretical physics and the men and women who plumbed the mysteries of the atom. Along with [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
From Amazon.com: In the salad days of nuclear-weapons testing, the United States detonated 331 atomic, hydrogen, and thermonuclear bombs. Many of those explosions appear in Trinity and Beyond, which utilizes a lot of declassified footage, most of it in [... more]
CDN$29.98
Amazon CA |
