The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Name: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District

by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District

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Cf. Trinity Atomic Web Site: http://www.envirolink.org/issues/nuketesting/

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

[S.l.]: Manhattan Engineer District of the United States Army, 1946

Release date

1996-10-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Atomic bomb -- Blast effect Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 D731

About the author

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District

Born as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district and based in New York City, this secret wartime organization became the military arm of the Manhattan Project. Under Leslie Groves, it coordinated the huge industrial and scientific effort that produced the first atomic bombs.

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