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The secret project
\"The world's greatest scientists gather in a secret town in the desert to develop the atomic bomb\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The First Atomic Bomb
On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end
of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first
atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote
Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Immensely more
powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bomb's effects on
the surrounding and downwind communities of plants, animals, birds,
and humans have lasted decades. In The First Atomic Bomb
Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and
those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed-the
men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first
test-as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of
the radiation. Concentrating on these ordinary people, laborers,
ranchers, and Indigenous peoples who lived in the region and
participated in the testing, Brodie corrects the lack of coverage
in existing scholarship on the essential details and everyday
experiences of this globally significant event. The First
Atomic Bomb also covers the environmental preservation of the
Trinity test site and compares it with the wide range of atomic
sites now preserved independently or as part of the new Manhattan
Project National Historical Park. Although the Trinity site became
a significant node for testing the new weapons of the postwar
United States, it is known today as an officially designated
National Historic Landmark. Brodie presents a timely, important,
and innovative study of an explosion that carries special
historical weight in American memory.
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