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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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Photographs courtesy of Science Source/Photo Researchers: pp. 12 (Mehau Kulyk/Science Photo Library), 32 (Los Alamos National Laboratory/Mark Marten), 45 (Los Alamos National Laboratory/Science Photo Library), 79 (Los Alamos National Laboratory/Mark Marten), 103 (U.S. Air Force/Science Photo Library); AP/Wide World Photos: pp. 17 (top), 68, 76, 89; UPI/Corbis-Bettmann: pp. 17 (bottom), 50, 59, 81, 91; Corbis-Bettmann: pp. 26, 106; Gamma Liaison: p. 35 (Eric Brissaud/Los Alamos National Laboratory); Los Alamos National Laboratory: p. 43; National Security Agency/Central Intelligence Agency: p. 93; The Chicago Sun-Times 1998: p. 113 (Rich Hein)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Daniel, 1936 The Manhattan Project / Daniel Cohen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. ISBN 0-7613-0359-6 (lib. bdg.) 1. Atomic bombUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 2. Manhattan Project (U.S.)HistoryJuvenile literature. [1. Manhattan Project (U.S.) History. 2. Atomic bombHistory. ] 1. Title. QC773.3.U5C64 1999 355.8'25119dc21 98-44499 CIP AC
Published by the Millbrook Press, Inc. 2 Old New Milford Road, Brookfield, Connecticut 06804
Copyright 1999 by Daniel Cohen All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 4 2
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Contents
Introduction TrinityJuly 16, 1945
9
Chapter One The Einstein Letter
13
Chapter Two "The Italian Navigator Has Just Landed"
21
Chapter Three The Odd Couple
30
Chapter Four Los Alamos
40
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Chapter Five The German Bomb Project
52
Chapter Six The Road to Trinity
63
Chapter Seven Testing "The Gadget"
71
Chapter Eight Spies
84
Chapter Nine After Trinity
99
Chapter Ten The Doomsday Clock
110
Chronology
117
Notes
119
Bibliography
122
Index
125
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Introduction TrinityJuly 16, 1945
On Monday, July 16, 1945, at 5:29 A.M., Mountain War Time, there was an explosion in the northwest corner of the Alamogordo Bombing Range (known as the Trinity site) that changed the world forever.
Years later physicist Isidore I. Rabi, who was at Base Camp 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the blast, recalled the event:
"We were lying there, very tense, in the early dawn, and there were just a few streaks of gold in the east; you could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the longest I ever experienced. Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way right through you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds. Finally it was over, diminishing, and we looked toward the place where the bomb had been; there was an enormous ball of fire which grew and grew and it
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rolled as it grew; it went up into the air in yellow flashes and into scarlet and green. It looked menacing. It seemed to come toward one.
"A new thing had been born; a new control; a new understanding of man, which man had acquired over nature."1
Another physicist at Base Camp, Emilio Segre, had visions of the apocalypse:
"The most striking impression was that of an overwhelmingly bright light.... I was flabbergasted by the new spectacle. We saw the whole sky flash with unbelievable brightness in spite of the very dark glasses we wore.... I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the earth, even though I knew this was not possible."2
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