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Great racesSummary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 MCMHagedorn, Ann
Summary: "The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOVAL, GEORGE HAGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KOVAL HAGSummary: 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 OPPRea, Amy C.
Summary: "Offers readers a captivating look into the race between three countries to build the world's most destructive weapon. Learn about the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, and how the United States used this weapon to end World War II"-- www.childsworld.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020