Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb - Hardcover

Gallagher, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809094681 ISBN 13: 9780809094684

Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S., 2012

Synopsis

In "Trinity", the illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm tells the history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb, and the ethical debates that followed. He sets the stage with early research in Europe, which began prior to World War I and accelerated rapidly as World War II approached. He takes special care to explain the process of a nuclear chain reaction, transporting the reader into a splitting atom in the vivid way that only a graphic book can. The action then shifts to Los Alamos, and Fetter-Vorm showcases the strong personalities of the physicists under the supervision of the Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer and high-level military personnel. These men and women wrestled daily with both the difficulty of building an atomic weapon and the moral implications of actually succeeding. When the first bomb finally went off at a test site code-named Trinity, the world was irreversibly thrust into a new and far more dangerous age. Richly illustrated and deeply researched, "Trinity" is dramatic, informative, and thought-provoking.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Fetter-Vorm is a writer and illustrator of nonfiction graphic books. He is the cofounder of the Two Fine Chaps graphic imprint, a partnership dedicated to adapting, illustrating, and printing classical works of literature and natural science. He was born and raised in Montana and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809094681
• ISBN 13: 9780809094684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160