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2023., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: GN 623.4 SHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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-- Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weaponc2012., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.45 SHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon2012., Adolescent, Flash Point Call No: 623.4 5119 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Examines the history of the atom bomb, from the 1938 discovery that the uranium atom could be split through the race to develop, steal, and use the atom bomb in World War II to establish world military dominance by scientists and spies in America, Britain, Russia, and Germany.
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-- Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon2012., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.4 SHE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the history of the atomic bomb, discussing the discovery of the behavior of uranium when placed next to radioactive material, the race to build a bomb, and the impact of the weapon on societies around the world.
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-- Race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon2012., Juvenile, Flash Point Call No: FIC SHE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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-- Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weaponc2013., Scholastic Inc. by arrangement with Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.4 SHEINKIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2016, Juvenile, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Edition: First edition Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping into harbor, and soon the Nazis occupy all of Norway... At Vemork, an industrial fortress high above a dizzying gorge, they gain access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end World War II: Hitler's very own nuclear bomb. When the Allies discover the plans for the bomb, they agree Vemork must be destroyed. But after a British operation fails to stop the Nazis deadly designs, the task falls to a band of young Norwegian commandos"--
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2016., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: HI-INT 940.54 BAS Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Nazis take control of Norway, they gain access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end the war: Hitler's very own atomic bomb. When the Allies discover the plans for hte bomb, they agree that it must be destroyed. But after a British operation fails to stop the Nazis' deadly designs, the task falls to a band of passionate Norwegian commandos - young men who love their country and long to free it from Nazi rule. .
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2016., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: WAR Edition: 1st ed., June 2016. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the mission of young Norwegian commandos to destroy Vemork, an industrial fortress that was occupied by German troops during World War II through which they gained access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end the war: Hitler's very own nuclear bomb. Armed with little more than skis, explosives, and great courage, the commandos will survive months in the snowy wilderness, elude a huge manhunt, and execute two dangerous missions. The result? The greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.
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[2016], Juvenile, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: 940.54 BASCOMB Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping into harbor, and soon the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They institute martial rule. And at Vemork, an industrial fortress high above a dizzying gorge, they gain access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end World War II: Hitler's very own nuclear bomb. When the Allies discover the plans for the bomb, they agree Vemork must be destroyed. But after a British operation fails to stop the Nazis' deadly designs, the task falls to a band of young Norwegian commandos. Armed with little more than skis, explosives, and great courage, they will survive months in the snowy wilderness, elude a huge manhunt, and execute two dangerous missions. The result? The greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.
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2016., Juvenile, Arthur A. Levine Books Call No: 940.54 Bas Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Chronicles Nazi Germany's occupation of Norway during World War II. Tells the story of a group of young Norwegian commandos tasked with destroying Hitler's atomic bomb and how their mission led to the war's greatest act of sabotage.
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2016., Juvenile, Arthur A. Levine Books Call No: 940.54 BASCOMB Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles Nazi Germany's occupation of Norway during World War II. Tells the story of a group of young Norwegian commandos tasked with destroying Hitler's atomic bomb and how their mission led to the war's greatest act of sabotage.
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2016., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: WWII NF BAS Edition: 1st ed., June 2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the mission of young Norwegian commandos to destroy Vemork, an industrial fortress that was occupied by German troops during World War II through which they gained access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end the war: Hitler's very own nuclear bomb. Armed with little more than skis, explosives, and great courage, the commandos will survive months in the snowy wilderness, elude a huge manhunt, and execute two dangerous missions. The result? The greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.
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2016., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: WWII NF BAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed. But how would they reach the castle fortress set on a precipitous gorge in one of the coldest, most inhospitable places on Earth? ... Based on a trove of top secret documents and never-before-seen diaries and letters of the saboteurs"--Dust jacket.
