Description: Easton Press leather edition of Lamont Lansing's "Day of Trinity," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated with Period Photographs, one of the LIBRARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY series, published in 1989. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in Near FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES included. Lamont Lansing, who was born in Manhattan in 1930, was a journalist and author of several books, best known for "Day of Trinity." Lansing graduated from Milton Academy and HARVARD. He was a reporter for the Washington Star and deputy director of Time Magazine's London bureau. On July 16, 1945, the nuclear age was born amidst a fiery display of power the likes of which mankind had never before witnessed. Lansing chronicles the events leading to that apocalyptic morning, setting the stage for the MANHATTAN PROJECT and its culmination at the test site code named "TRINITY." By 1940, many of Europe's finest scholars had fled worn-torn Europe and sought refuge in the U.S. Among them were Nobel Prize-winner Enrico Fermi, the man who split the atom; Edward Teller, future father of the hydrogen bomb; Niels Bohr; Emilio Segre, physicist Klaus Fuchs, who would ultimately durn the U.S.'s stomic secrets to the Russians. The Manhattan Project was centered at Los Alamos, under the direction of ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, brilliant physicist and true Renaissance man. When Trinity was over, the desert was aflame with "the radiance of a thousand suns," and nothing that could fly or crawl was left alive. The $2 billion "gadget" was equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Minutes before Trinity, a Nobel Prize winner murmured, "I'm scared witless, absolutely witness." Nobody knew for sure until it was over. When it was, one scientist remarked, "Now we're all sons-of-bitches." 363 pages. I offer combined shipping. Lansing ("La
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Binding: Leather
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Publisher: Easton Press
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Subject: Manhatttan Project
Year Printed: 1989
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Illustrator: Period Photographs
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Region: U.S.
Author: Lamont Lansing
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Day of Trinity: Nuclear Age
Character Family: Oppenheimer, Roosevelt, \
