Description: Title: Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States' Atomic Bomb Author: Hydrick, Carter Plymton Publisher: Trine Day Binding: Paperback Pages: 432 Dimensions: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d Product Weight: 0.7 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781634241175 On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the specially-built mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders "lined with gold," was 1,120 pounds of enriched uranium labeled "U235"the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Critical Mass documents how these Nazi bomb components were then used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to defeat the Japanese and win World War Two and global domination in the modern age. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Critical Mass : How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States' Atomic Bomb
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 6in
Item Width: 0.2in
Author: Carter Plymton Hydrick
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Military / Weapons, Physics / Nuclear
Publisher: Trine DAY
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Science, History
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
