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Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb

Christman, Al. Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998. 305pp. $32

The roles of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Leslie Groves, Paul Tibbets, and other participants in the creation and use of the atomic bomb have been well documented in a host of articles and books concerning the Manhattan Project. Even relatively minor players (such as Louis Slotin, who died of a radiation overdose in a criticality accident) are known to us through fictionalized versions of the popular movie Fat Man and Little Boy. In these and other accounts, a uniformed naval officer appears briefly, and we have wondered, who was that man? Al ...

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