War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

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Автор: Charles W. Sweeney

Название: War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

Издательство: Avon Books

Год: 1997

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 320

Язык: English

Размер: 35.8 MB

On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps Major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress, in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion. In the belly of his bomber, the Bock's Car, was a newly developed, fully armed weapon that had never been tested in a combat situation - a weapon capable of a level of destruction never before dreamed of in the history of the human race...a bomb whose terrifying aftershock would ultimately determine the direction of the twentieth century and change the world forever.