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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

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction Y/623.451/SHEINKIN,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Roaring Brook Press, [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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Additional Titles

TITLES

Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon

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SUBJECTS

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.

LOCAL SUBJECTS

Newbery Honor Book

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

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