Day of TrinityHere, for the first time, is a full and understandable account of one of the most compelling and climactic occasions in the history of man: the successful explosion of the first atomic bomb. |
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Contents
Gathering the Wind | 15 |
Los Alamos 194344 | 44 |
Early 1945 | 71 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Day of Trinity |
| Author | Lansing Lamont |
| Publisher | Atheneum, 1965 |
| Length | 333 pages |
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