The Atom Bomb: Creating and Exploding the First Nuclear Weapon cover

The Atom Bomb: Creating and Exploding the First Nuclear Weapon

Author: Orr, Tamra

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 8.7
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 8774
Points per Word 0.000228
Page Count 64
Points per Page 0.03125
Series Library of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Description

This book describes the background and context of the first nuclear weapon, the atomic bomb. It also includes information on the physicists involved and concludes with the dropping of the A-bomb on two of Japan's cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.