The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Rhodes, 1986)
1945 · Resource
Richard Rhodes' Pulitzer-winning history of the Manhattan Project and its scientific antecedents.
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Around 1945
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)