The first atomic bomb : the Trinity site in New Mexico /

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"On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-cent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Series:America's public lands.
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons testing victims > New Mexico > Socorro County.
Radiation injuries > New Mexico > Socorro County.
Atomic bomb > Testing.
Victimes d'essais nucléaires > Nouveau-Mexique > Socorro (Comté)
Mal des rayons > Nouveau-Mexique > Socorro (Comté)
HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Atomic bomb > Testing
Nuclear weapons testing victims
Radiation injuries
Trinity Site (N.M.) > History.
New Mexico > Socorro County
New Mexico > Trinity Site
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Trinity Test
  • Dispossessions
  • Building the Test Site
  • Post-Test Events at the Trinity Site, 1946-67
  • The Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Trinity Site
  • The Trinity Radiation and Its Afterlives
  • Historical Preservation of the Trinity Site

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