Janet Farrell Brodie

The First Atomic Bomb

The Trinity Site in New Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Janet Farrell Brodie explores the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781496232977
• ISBN-10: 1496232976
• Artikelnr.: 65951461

Autorenporträt

Janet Farrell Brodie is a professor emerita of history at Claremont Graduate University. She has published articles on atomic secrecy in multiple venues, including the Journal of Social History and the Journal of Diplomatic History and in the edited volume Inevitably Toxic: Historical Perspectives on Contamination, Exposure, and Expertise.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Trinity Test
2. Dispossessions
3. Building the Test Site
4. Post-Test Events at the Trinity Site, 1946–67
5. The Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the
Trinity Site
6. The Trinity Radiation and Its Afterlives
7. Historical Preservation of the Trinity Site
Notes
Bibliography
Index