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Bomb. (book) Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon is a 2012 adolescent non-fiction book by author Steve Sheinkin. The book won the 2013 Newbery Honor and Sibert Medal [1] from the American Library Association. This book follows the process of building the nuclear bomb by the discovery of nuclear fission by ...
Sheinkin's nonfiction books, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon [4] and The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, [5] were both National Book Award finalists. In 2013, Bomb also won the Newbery Honor and Sibert Medal from the American Library Association.
Harry Gold (born Henrich Golodnitsky, December 11, 1910 – August 28, 1972) was a Swiss-born American laboratory chemist who was convicted as a courier for the Soviet Union passing atomic secrets from Klaus Fuchs, an agent of the Soviet Union, during World War II. Gold served as a government witness and testified in the case of Julius and ...
Bomb shot, a type of alcoholic mixed drink made by dropping a shot into another drink. Bomb, Australian slang for a jalopy. Dahlbusch Bomb, a non-explosive emergency evacuation device for use in mining, called a "bomb" because of its shape. Logic bomb, a form of malicious software. Bomb (village), a village in Punjab, India.
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon: Winner Robert Byrd: Robert Byrd: Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin: Honor Phillip Hoose — Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with Great Survivor B95: Deborah Hopkinson — Titanic: Voices from the Disaster: 2014 [18] Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore ...
Going to Meet the Man, [1] published in 1965, is a collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin.The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, lynching, sexuality, and ...
The startup race to build powerful AI models looks set to get a whole lot more expensive. OpenAI, which last year secured $10 billion, is said to be in talks to raise additional billions.
Occupation. Railroad worker. Known for. American folk hero. John Henry is an American folk hero. An African American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.