Bomb : the race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.
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TextPublication details: New York : Roaring Brook Press, (c)2012.Edition: First editionDescription: 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781596434875
- 9781480625440
- Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
- Atomic bomb -- History
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Soviet Union
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Commando operations -- Norway -- Vemork
- Operation Freshman, 1942
- Atomic bomb -- Germany -- History
- Arms race
- Cold War
- Natural history
- Scientists
- Military history
- Dictators
- Dictators -- Juvenile literature
- UG1282 .B663 2012
- UG1282
- COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
- Newbery Honor Book, 2013
- Sibert Medal, 2013
- YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner, 2013
- National Book Award Finalist, 2013
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G. Allen Fleece Library JUVENILE-NEWBERY | Fiction | UG1282.A8 S235 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001762364 |
"Book design by Jay Colvin"--Title page verso.
Three-way race -- Chain reactions -- How to build an atomic bomb -- Final assembly -- Epilogue -- Race to Trinity.
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.
COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:
Newbery Honor Book, 2013
Sibert Medal, 2013
YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner, 2013
National Book Award Finalist, 2013
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