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Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont.
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1 author picked Day of Trinity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Published in 1965 and written by then Washington and foreign correspondent of Time Magazine Lamont, this book remains for me an exceptionally compelling narrative history.
The lens here is focused tightly on the events leading up to the first-ever test of an atomic bomb, which was codenamed “Trinity.” Obsessively researched, yes, but it’s Lamont’s writing that makes readers feel as though they are there, in the vastness of the desert, witnessing a happening that changed the world forever.
From Denise's list on The best books on the Manhattan Project and the making of the atomic bomb.
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