Armageddon Postponed: A Different View of Nuclear Weapons

by Theodore Caplow

Book Overview

In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.S. government invented nuclear explosives by splitting the atoms of heavy metals. Germany had already surrendered, but the United States and its allies remained at war with Japan. In the summer of 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was flattened by a single nuclear bomb. A second bombing occurred just a few days later, decimating the city of Nagasaki. These were the first nuclear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761849912
• ISBN13: 9780761849919
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"