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Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 623.4 SHESheinkin, Steve.
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 623.4 SHELangley, Andrew.
Summary: Describes the events surrounding the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, discussing the long term repercussions and the overall results from a military standpoint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5425 LANMacCarald, Clara
Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the invention of the atomic bomb. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2017
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 609 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOMSheinkin, Steve.
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 623.4 SHEKrugler, David F.
Summary: "In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRUBascomb, Neal
Summary: Chronicles the efforts of the Allied forces to thwart the Nazi occupiers of Norway in their effort to build an atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.54 BASSummary: Enola Gay: Get a look inside the bomber that helped bring WWII to a stop, development of the atomic bomb, and the aftermath. Hiroshima: Fifty years after America dropped the first atomic bomb, this documentary looks at the events leading up to its use in the light of new information about a hidden agenda. Did top military officials order the attack despite knowing that Japan was willing to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ENOSummary: Chronicles the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs by the U.S.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCE 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRIWalker, Stephen
Summary: On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, the first atomic bomb detonated as expected, resulting in nearly 100,000 deaths. The Japanese surrendered nine days later. But if the bombing of Hiroshima represents one of the signal events of the twentieth century--indeed, in the history of mankind--at the time it was but another episode in an unprecedented drama whose final act had begun three weeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 WALSummary: The Bomb tells the story of the most powerful and destructive device ever invented. Learn how humans harnessed this incredible power and what challenges we have faced living with it since 1945. With newly restored footage of nuclear weaponry, some of which has only recently been declassified, go behind the scenes of the first atomic bomb, revealing how it was developed and how it changed the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2015
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Rotter, Andrew Jon.
Summary: Reveals the international story behind the creation of the atom bomb and the development of the modern age, as it discusses the crises that led to the Second World War, unsuccessful attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, the political and strategic decisions that led to the bomb, and its implications for the modern world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.8 ROTBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRSummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEACohen, Daniel
Summary: Discusses the personalities and events involved in the research, development and detonation of the atomic bombs built by the United States in the 1940s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.8251 COHKean, Sam
Summary: Traces the story of a renegade group of soldiers, scientists, and spies who were sent into Axis territory to spy on and sabotage Germany's nuclear weapons research and prevent Hitler from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.8 KEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.8 KEABascomb, Neal
Summary: April 9, 1940. The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping up a silent fjord. Soon planes full of paratroopers roar over the mountains, and in two months, the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They cripple food supplies to the Norwegian people. And at the Vemork power plant, they gain access to an essential ingredient in the weapon that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 BASFrayn, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.914 FRABascomb, Neal.
Summary: "Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions,"--NoveList. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.548 BASSummary: This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OPPSummary: Last in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events that changed the way Americans saw themselves. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 16, 1939, urged the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V3McMillan, Priscilla Johnson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 MCMConant, Jennet
Summary: "The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the twentieth century. As a young eminent chemist, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONANT, JAMES B. CONOlson, Steve
Summary: "A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph--and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to finda way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020