Shockwave Countdown to Hiroshima

Name: Shockwave Countdown to Hiroshima
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ISBN: 9780060742850

ISBN-10: 0060742852

ISBN-13: 9780060742850

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stephen Walker

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A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb -- dubbed Little Boy by its creators -- was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On that day, a firestorm of previously unimagined power was unleashed on a vibrant metropolis of 300,000 people, leaving one third of its population dead, its buildings and landmarks incinerated. It was the terrifying dawn of the Atomic Age, spawning decades of paranoia, mistrust, and a widespread and very real fear of the potential annihilation of the human race. Author Stephen Walker brilliantly re-creates the three…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English