Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project
The atomic age began at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of “the Gadget” at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Prelude to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which forced the capitulation of Japan and ended World War II, the Trinity test was the culmination of herculean efforts by scientists, civilians, and the military of the United States to tap the potential of the atom for a wartime emergency. If Nazi Germany could engineer the bomb first, an Allied victory against Hitler was all but lost. Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project is a look back at the epic struggle to build the world’s first atomic bomb.
Nearly 200 images in vivid black-and-white reveal the project as it unfolded, from its secretive origins at Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Los Alamos, to the day Americans celebrated triumph over the Axis powers with victory over Japan. A pinnacle moment in the history of the United States, the Manhattan Project’s application of Einstein’s famous equation E=MC2 shows, perhaps better than any other single endeavor, what can be achieved by human ingenuity when the citizens of a great nation are united in freedom against a fearsome and despotic foe.
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Book details
- Author
- Timothy Joseph
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- atomic bomb · World War II · Trinity test · black-and-white photography · pictorial history · nuclear weapons history · United States history
- ISBN-13
- 9781684420742
About the author
TIMOTHY W. JOSEPH is a former high school science teacher who earned a PhD and went on to work as a college professor, corporate manager, senior scientist, and weekly newspaper columnist. His recent books include Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project, Four-Fifths Endowed and Reflections on Love.
Joseph received the Word Weaver Award of Excellence and a Technical Communication Award of Excellence, and his literary writing was recognized by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
When not writing, Joseph works as a freelance technical writer and gives creative writing talks to local schools and organizations. That engagement with emerging writers reflects the same commitment to clear, purposeful communication found throughout his fiction and nonfiction work.