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020			_a9781399009812 _cRM159.50 _qhardback
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082	0	4	_223 _a623.45119
090	0	0	_a623.45119 _bMAN _dG
100	1		_aMangi, Jim, _eauthor. _q(James Mangi)
245	1	4	_aTHE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB : _bAN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE ENDING OF WW2 / _cJIM MANGI
264		1	_aYorkshire, Philadelphia : _bFrontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd., _c[2022?]
300			_axvi, 288 pages : _bphotographs ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index
504			_aBibliography : pages 261-273.
520			_aWhile 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	1	0	_aAtomic bomb _xHistory
650	2	0	_aAtomic weapons
650	2	0	_aWorld War, _y1939-1945 _xCommando operations
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