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The First Atomic Bomb - An Alternate History of the Ending of WW2 (Hardcover)
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The First Atomic Bomb - An Alternate History of the Ending of WW2 (Hardcover)
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While 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?
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