Foreword
The atomic age dawned on July 16, 1945, in the desert of New Mexico, when the United States conducted the first nuclear test. The explosion was the result of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret program that began in 1942 and grew out of fears that Hitler’s Germany might be developing nuclear weapons. Just three weeks later, on August 6, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On August 9, the United States detonated a second, larger atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. As a result, the Japanese surrendered to the allies on August…
