Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
(2012)
By:
Sheinkin, Steve
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/623.451/SHEINKIN,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Roaring Brook Press, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781596434875 (hc), 1596434872 (hc)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2013 Newbery Honor Book Award
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
Winner of the 2013 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
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