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Day of the Bomb: Countdown to Hiroshima.1939-1945. By Dan Kurzman. McGraw-Hill Company Press,1986.Epilogue,Notes,Bibliography,Index.546pgs.Hardshell.$49.50
August 6, 1945, day of the bomb: At 3:00 A.M., Navy captain William S. Parsons, squatted in the bomb bay of the specially built B-29, the Enola Gay. Placing the explosive detonating charge through the tail of the bomb, which nick named “Little Boy”. It was intense and dangerous work the “Enola Gay” crew accomplished, as they flew over the Pacific Ocean, Dan Kurzman described. Dan Kurzman, writer of the book, did incredible research, along with his wife Florence, which became awarded. Hiroshima, one of the most important topics in history, was one of his favorite topics of all the war topics he researched, and wrote books on.
Kurzman, explains throughout the book the wonders of science that man discovered, which led closer to the destruction of mankind. Leo Szilard, thought, if the bomb was dropped, would not only ravage Japanese cities but would set the stage for Armageddon and total chaos. Just as he predicted it happened. Szilard was obsessed in saving the world ever since he was ten, Kurzman described, but he was the man that created the “Monster”, the destructor of all mankind, the atomic reaction. With his wise mind and great intelligence, he was the reason the atomic bomb was created. The closer he became creator of the bomb, the further he ran away from his allies, the enemy, the Nazi.
Atomic Energy was also a though of the great Einstein. Szilard a great student of Einstein, followed all of his steps to become as great as his professor. Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard gather together in 1939 in which they both agreed to write President Roosevelt urging him to build an atomic bomb before Hitler’s scientist could. Szilard had discovered the great atomic reaction, and he was well afraid that Hitler’s scientists would...
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