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Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States' Atomic Bomb Hardcover - 2004

by Carter Plymton Hydrick


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The true story of the Manhattan Project you haven't heard about! On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders lined with gold, was 560 kilograms, 1,120 pounds, of enriched uranium oxide labeled U235-the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Following ten years of research, author Carter Hydrick presents documentation that demonstrates surrendered German components from U-234 were used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki to defeat the Japanese, win World War Two and usher in the Nuclear Age.

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  • Title Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States' Atomic Bomb
  • Author Carter Plymton Hydrick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition second edition
  • Pages 380
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jiffyline
  • Date July 30, 2004
  • ISBN 9780975985304 / 0975985302
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.32 x 1.25 in (23.70 x 16.05 x 3.18 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.53
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Whitehurst & Co, 2004. second edition. Hard Cover. f/f. octavo. 357pp A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. In a mylar protective wrapper.
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