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1) Hiroshima
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English
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A story of six people who lived through the greatest man-made disaster in history, the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city
2) Godzilla
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English
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DVD : This animated series chronicles the further adventures of the characters from the 1998 U.S. remake of GODZILLA. The three episodes on this release contain a story arc dealing with an alien spacecraft found on the ocean floor, a giant bat on the loose in Africa, a robot created from the body parts of the first Godzilla, and a trio of giant telepathic monsters on the loose in the U.S.
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MGM Home Entertainment
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English
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A dangerous game starts the clock ticking on a nuclear bomb. Can anyone stop Armageddon? This gripping doomsday story follows a high school science whiz who builds an atomic bomb as a prank...only to trigger a horrifying race against time. Starring John Lithgow (A Civil Action) Christopher Collet (The Langoliers) and Cynthia Nixon ("Sex and the City"), The Manhattan Project is "intelligent and entertaining [with] a satisfyingly suspenseful finale"...
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Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies' efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.
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The first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation--an icon of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. He created a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Nominated for an Academy Award, John Junkerman's documentary film Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima captures the artists Iri and Toshi Maruki in their decades-long collaboration to create a testament to the effects of the atomic bomb- the Hiroshima Murals, which have been viewed by over 100 million people around the world. Haunted by the memories of Hiroshima after the atomic blast, the Marukis began a series of monumental paintings depicting what...
9) The anger
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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La rabbia attempts to show how the right wing and the left wing viewed the societal changes in the 1950s and 60s. Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi explore topics such as racism, the Middle East, Cuba, Stalinism, the Atomic bomb, and the death of Marilyn Monroe from diametrically opposite sides of the political spectrum, so it is no wonder why the U.S. government was afraid of this film. Pasolini and Guareschi, two of the most important...
10) Los Alamos
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Spring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Intelligence officer Michael Connolly is brought in to crack the case.
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In the remote desert of New Mexico, “The Manhattan Project” is materializing – the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. **Oscar**-winner Paul Newman (*Hud*, *Nobody’s Fool*) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.” Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A singular, powerful experience."...
12) Empire and honor
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Honor bound volume 7
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program.
14) The bomb
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Harcourt Brace & Co
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1st ed.
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English
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In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
15) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
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English
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A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.
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Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming of age during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family's land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced...
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Center Point Large Print
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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English
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"Millions have vanished . . . War has erupted around the globe . . . Cities have been ransacked and overrunwith lawlessness . . . Yet this is only the beginning of the chaos that is to come. Emma Grady has seen civilization collapse and New York gutted by nuclear attack. Amidst this international crisis, she and her growing family of outcasts must unravel the meaning of these strange and horrifying events, even as they struggle to survive. On the...
20) The bomb
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PBS
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English
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This is the story of the most powerful and destructive device ever invented. With newly restored footage, go behind the scenes of the first atomic bomb, revealing how it was developed and how it changed the planet. Examine the choices society has made since 1945, and continues to make, to live with an invention that could destroy the planet.
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