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      [2008]., Pre-adolescent, Chelsea House Call No: 940.54 2521 954    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Great historic disasters.Summary Note: Examines the development and use of the atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945; and discusses why Truman felt the bombs were necessary, arguments against their use, and the death and destruction caused by them.
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      2018., Juvenile, Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.4 SHE   Edition: First Square Fish edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents.
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      -- Race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
      2012., 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 weapon
      2012., Roaring Brook Press Call No: WAR   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:4 of 4     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 weapon
      2012., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.45 SHEINKIN   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:0 of 1     At Location(s) 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 weapon
      2012., 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 weapon
      2012., Roaring Brook Press Call No: Historical 623.45 She   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s)Click here to view 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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      [2014]., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 623.4 5119    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: From 1946 until 1958, as part of the Cold War arms race, the U.S. military detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs over Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The twelfth bomb, called Bravo, became the world's first nuclear disaster. It sent a toxic cloud of radiation over Rongelap Atoll and other nearby inhabited islands.
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      [2014], Juvenile, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 623.45 Gol    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the disaster of "Bravo," the twelfth nuclear bomb test-detonated by the United States in the region of the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the fallout of which drifted on the wind and radioactively contaminated the island of Rongelap. Explores the aftermath of the disaster and its effects on the region and its citizens, who suffered radiation poisoning and to this day cannot return to their ancestral homes.