The Day the Sun Rose Twice
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The Day the Sun Rose Twice

The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

  1. 245 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

The Day the Sun Rose Twice

The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

About this book

Winner of the Western History Association’s Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twentieth-century American West

Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in an isolated stretch of the central New Mexico desert. It may have been the single most important event of the twentieth century. The Day the Sun Rose Twice tells the fascinating story of the events leading up to this first test explosion, the characters and roles of the people involved, and the aftermath of the bomb’s successful demonstration.

With J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” at last getting his Hollywood close-up in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster film Oppenheimer, readers can discover the background behind the world’s first atomic blast in Ferenc Morton Szasz’s award-winning history. “Tightly focused, lucidly written, and thoroughly researched,” according to the New York Times Book Review, the book provides “a valuable introduction to how our nuclear dilemma began.”

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Information

Publisher
UNM Press
Year
1995
Print ISBN
9780826307682
eBook ISBN
9780826324955

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. One The Origins of Los Alamos
  10. Two The Construction and Naming of Trinity
  11. Three Theoretical Considerations
  12. Four The Question of Weather
  13. Five The Blast
  14. Six The Aftermath I: Fallout
  15. Seven The Aftermath II: Cattle, Film, and People
  16. Eight The International Legacy
  17. Nine The Local Legacy
  18. Epilogue
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index