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- catalog abstract ""For better or worse, Navy captain William S. "Deak" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of "Little Boy" during the flight to Hiroshima. As bomb commander, he approved the release of the bomb that forever changed the world. Yet over the past fifty years only fragments of his story have appeared, in part because of his own self-effacement and the nation's demand for secrecy. Based on recently declassified Manhattan Project documents, including Parsons' logs and other untapped sources, the book offers an unvarnished account of this unsung hero and his involvement in some of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10825163.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""For better or worse, Navy captain William S. "Deak" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of "Little Boy" during the flight to Hiroshima. As bomb commander, he approved the release of the bomb that forever changed the world. Yet over the past fifty years only fragments of his story have appeared, in part because of his own self-effacement and the nation's demand for secrecy. Based on recently declassified Manhattan Project documents, including Parsons' logs and other untapped sources, the book offers an unvarnished account of this unsung hero and his involvement in some of the greatest scientific advances of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 305 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1557501203 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "359/.0092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Admirals United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Parsons, William Sterling, 1901-1953.".
- catalog subject "United States. Navy Biography.".
- catalog subject "V63.P35 C47 1998".
- catalog title "Target Hiroshima : Deak Parsons and the creation of the atomic bomb / Al Christman.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".