THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB : (Record no. 193357)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781399009812 |
| Terms of availability | RM159.50 |
| Qualifying information | hardback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | PPAK |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | PPAK |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 623.45119 |
| 090 00 - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) | |
| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) | 623.45119 |
| Feature heading | MAN |
| Feature heading | G |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mangi, Jim, |
| Relator term | author. |
| Fuller form of name | (James Mangi) |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB : |
| Remainder of title | AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE ENDING OF WW2 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | JIM MANGI |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Yorkshire, Philadelphia : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2022?] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 288 pages : |
| Other physical details | photographs ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Bibliography : pages 261-273. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | While German and Japanese scientists also laboured unsuccessfully to create an atomic bomb, by the summer of 1945, the American-led team was ready to test its first weapon. As the clock ticked down to the detonation time of 05.30 hours on 16 July 1945, the nervous team of technicians and scientists waited ten miles away from 'Ground Zero' deep in the New Mexico desert. No one knew how powerful the explosion would be or whether even at such a distance they would be safe from the blast. Even so, some chose to observe the detonation from a point four miles nearer at the control bunker; but then no one was even sure that the bomb would work. What if that is actually what happened? Under schedule pressure from the White House, the scientists assembled the device in part with tape and tissue paper, knowing some components were flawed. These are verifiable facts. It means that, as many of those who gathered in the New Mexico desert feared at the time, the bomb might not have worked during that first test. In The First Atomic Bomb, Jim Mangi explores what might happened in the event that the world's first atomic bomb had not been ready for use when it was. How would this have affected the end of the war in the Pacific, and indeed the Second World War as a whole? Would Emperor Hirohito's armed forces have battled on? When might Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, at the controls of his Boeing B-24 Superfortress Enola Gay have then made his historic flight over Hiroshima and would that city even have remained the target? How would Stalin and the Soviets have reacted to such developments, and how would this have played out in the post-war world? |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Atomic bomb |
| General subdivision | History |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Atomic weapons |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, |
| Chronological subdivision | 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision | Commando operations |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Perpustakaan Alor Setar | Pinjaman Dewasa | 26/11/2023 | 623.45119 MAN | A01799340 | 26/11/2023 | Book |