Nuclear Dawn by James Delgado
The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by the American-led international effort. Horrific and controversial even today, these first uses of the atomic bomb had intense ramifications not only on the continued development of the bomb, but also on politics and popular culture. As well as the technological development, historian James Delgado also examines how the US Army Air Force had to develop the capacity to deliver the weapons, and examines the sites where development and testing took place, in order to give a comprehensive history of the dawning of the nuclear age.
JAMES P. DELGADO directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Maritime Heritage Program in the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. He is the author of over 32 books, including Misadventures of aCivil War Submarine: Iron, Guns, and Pearls. He documented and studied HA-19, the midget submarine captured in Hawaii in 1941, and continues to study Japan's midget submarines. TERRY KERBY is the operations director and chief submersible pilot for the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab (HURL) at the University of Hawai'i. He initiated the effort to locate Ward's midget submarine in 1992 by using the Pisces V's pre-science dive season test dives to search for the submarine and also discovered the three-piece midget submarine. STEVEN PRICE works with the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab (HURL) as the maintenance chief for the Pisces IV and V submersibles and a diver and a back-up Pisces pilot. He created HURL's shipwreck database and has done the historical and background research on all of the maritime and cultural heritage discoveries that HURL's submersibles have made. MAXIMILIAN D. CREMER is the deputy operations director and senior submersible pilot for the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab. He joined HURL in 1998 and has been piloting PISCES IV or V during all maritime historical dives since 2003, scouting out SONAR targets, serving as camera and lighting platform, and providing on-site safety for the chief pilot and his crew in the other sub. HANS K. VAN TILBURG is the coordinator of maritime heritage in the Pacific Islands Region for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the author of Chinese Junks on the Pacific: Views from a Different Deck. OLE VARMER is an attorney in the International Section of the Office of General Counsel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, specializing in the law pertaining to underwater cultural heritage. This has included legal work for the protection of the two midget submarines off Oahu. RUSSELL MATTHEWS is a historian specializing in aviation and maritime subjects, as well as a filmmaker whose past work includes the Cold War documentary Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines. He made four dives to explore the Pearl Harbor midget subs and serves as executive producer for an upcoming television documentary about the mission.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781846033964 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846033969 |
| Title | Nuclear Dawn |
| Author | James Delgado |
| Series | General Military |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Osprey Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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