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61) Atomic cover-up
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1 videodisc (52 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Atomic Cover-up is the first documentary to explore the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the unique perspective -- words and startling images -- of the cameramen who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. It reveals how this historic footage -- created by a Japanese newsreel crew and then an elite U.S. Army team -- was seized, classified top secret, and then buried by American officials for decades to hide the full human costs...
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367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices detonated over Japan changed life on Earth forever.
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xviii, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious and expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the...
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"In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy Intelligence officer is found on a cobblestone back alley,...
68) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
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312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
April 12, 1945: America is stunned by the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents. Wallace tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 230 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
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English
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J. Robert Oppenheimer began an experiment that formed a threat to the whole of humanity, and whose scientific results still do today. The question of the moral implications of the atomic bomb is raised in Adams opera.
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2 videodiscs (171 min.) : black and white, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The beast from 20,000 fathoms: "As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature....
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Twayne's oral history volume no. 19
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xiv, 204 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
74) Stealing Trinity
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In the last days of WWII, the Third Reich makes a desperate grab to retrieve its most valuable asset, Die Wespe, a spy buried deep in the Manhattan Project. The man chosen for this mission is Alexander Braun-American born, Harvard educated, and a ruthless killer. British Intelligence learns of the Nazi plan. Unable to convince their American counterparts of the magnitude of the threat, they dispatch Major Michael Thatcher to track down Braun. The...
75) Godzilla
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2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Years after his mother's death at a nuclear power plant in Japan, Ford Brody discovers a conspiracy to hide the fact that giant monsters exist. But it doesn't take long for the world to also find out, as a "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism" attacks Hawaii, and Godzilla turns up.
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xvi, 825 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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An exploration of the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and his contributions to the revolution in twentieth-century physics.
"Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Oppenheimer, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex intellectual life of America's most fascinating and...
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"This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Tōgō, the Japanese Foreign Minister, who was the only one in Emperor...
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