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Author
Language
English
Description
“What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here.” In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months—a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun takes readers to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made...
4) The gadget
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
6) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Publisher
New Wave Films for Reel2Reel Films Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer, learn the amazing true story of The Father of the Atomic Bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 - Died on February 18, 1967, A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and best known for creating the Atomic Bomb, during WWII.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the development of the atomic bomb by the Manhattan Project, during World War II, with emphasis on the relationship between General Leslie Groves, the project director, and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl is uprooted from her quiet, East coast life and moved to a secluded army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other scientists are working on a top secret project.
10) Atomic love
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
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