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Twilight time : a soldier's role in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos

Title
Twilight time : a soldier's role in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos / by Ralph C. Sparks.
Author
Sparks, Ralph C. (Ralph Congdon), 1919-
Publication
Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos Historical Society, 2000.

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Description
vi, 116 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Sparks, Ralph C. 1919-
  • Manhattan Project (U.S.)
  • Atomic bomb > United States > History
  • Machinists > United States > Biography
  • Atomic bomb
  • Machinists
  • Kernwaffe
  • Entwicklung
  • Soldat
  • Erlebnisbericht
  • Manhattan-Projekt
  • United States
  • USA
  • Los Alamos (N.M.)
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Contents
The education and training of a tool and gauge maker -- The start of World War II, tools and gauges to manufacture guns -- You're in the Army now--a rapid demotion -- The Manhattan Corps of Engineers is not in New York City -- V Shop experiences at Site Y -- Gamma shop foreman and the Ice house work -- The Trinity shot : the sun didn't rise in the South -- The little boy and the fat man bring about a quick Japanese surrender -- Bikini test : the Navy in trouble -- Farewell to Los Alamos -- Epilogue -- 50 years later the SEDs return.
ISBN
  • 0941232255
  • 9780941232258
LCCN
00056727
OCLC
  • ocm44493392
  • 44493392
  • SCSB-1253739
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library