James P. Delgado is the President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, the world's leading scientific organization dedicated to the study of the human past through shipwrecks and seafaring. The host, with Clive Cussler, of the National Geographic International Television series The Sea Hunters, Dr. Delgado is the author or editor of nearly thirty books, including Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks, Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea, Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll, Pearl Harbor Recalled: New Images from the Day of Infamy and Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet: History's Greatest Naval Disaster. The author lives in Richmond, British Columbia.
"This fascinating book covers the pre-atomic age, the development
and delivery of atomic bombs to their targets in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan, international reaction to the attacks, and
post-war atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. It then analyzes nuclear
proliferation and deterence and the bomb's legacies, which have
touched virtually every aspect of human affairs." --Colonel Gordon
W. Keiser (Ret), US Naval Institute Proceedings (February
2010)"Nuclear Dawn is a breathtaking story written in crisp, highly
readable prose. Fully illustrated, this comprehensive book fills an
important gap in our understanding of the enormous changes that the
United States military underwent during World War II." --Sir Read a
Lot, sirreadalot.org (October 2009)"Nuclear Dawn is a 'must' for
any military library and for general history collections strong in
World War II and nuclear bomb history. It offers a fully
illustrated book surveying the development of the bomb, from early
attempts to tests and advances in technology. An added bonus: it
considers how the US Air Force had development capacity to delivery
the weapons and considers the sites where such developments took
place." --Midwest Book Review (February 2010)"Now, I am not much of
a scientist. I am especially ignorant when it comes to the hard
sciences, such as physics. It thus came as a bit of a surprise to
me that the history of what is largely an area of research in
physics could be so remarkable. Delgado, however, knows the craft
of writing as well as any historian and he makes his subject both
meaningful and exciting for even a casual reader...Reading Nuclear
Dawn makes the atomic bomb far more accessible as a concept to the
average reader than any other book on the subject I have read."
--David Mitchell, BiblioBuffet (November 2009)"A splendid
introduction to the complex dilemmas of our atomic world." --F.M.
Szasz, Choice Magazine (March 2010)
This fascinating book covers the pre-atomic age, the development
and delivery of atomic bombs to their targets in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan, international reaction to the attacks, and
post-war atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. It then analyzes nuclear
proliferation and deterence and the bomb's legacies, which have
touched virtually every aspect of human affairs. "Colonel Gordon W.
Keiser (Ret), US Naval Institute Proceedings (February 2010)"
Nuclear Dawn is a breathtaking story written in crisp, highly
readable prose. Fully illustrated, this comprehensive book fills an
important gap in our understanding of the enormous changes that the
United States military underwent during World War II. "Sir Read a
Lot, sirreadalot.org (October 2009)" Nuclear Dawn is a 'must' for
any military library and for general history collections strong in
World War II and nuclear bomb history. It offers a fully
illustrated book surveying the development of the bomb, from early
attempts to tests and advances in technology. An added bonus: it
considers how the US Air Force had development capacity to delivery
the weapons and considers the sites where such developments took
place. "Midwest Book Review (February 2010)" Now, I am not much of
a scientist. I am especially ignorant when it comes to the hard
sciences, such as physics. It thus came as a bit of a surprise to
me that the history of what is largely an area of research in
physics could be so remarkable. Delgado, however, knows the craft
of writing as well as any historian and he makes his subject both
meaningful and exciting for even a casual reader...Reading Nuclear
Dawn makes the atomic bomb far more accessible as a concept to the
average reader than any other book on the subject I have read.
"David Mitchell, BiblioBuffet (November 2009)" A splendid
introduction to the complex dilemmas of our atomic world. "F.M.
Szasz, Choice Magazine (March 2010)""
"Featured in the December 2009 Foreword Footnotes
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"A splendid introduction to the complex dilemmas of our atomic
world." - F.M. Szasz, "Choice Magazine" (March 2010)
""Nuclear Dawn" is a 'must' for any military library and for
general history collections strong in World War II and nuclear bomb
history. It offers a fully illustrated book surveying the
development of the bomb, from early attempts to tests and advances
in technology. An added bonus: it considers how the US Air Force
had development capacity to delivery the weapons and considers the
sites where such developments took place." -"Midwest Book Review
"(February 2010)
"This fascinating book covers the pre-atomic age, the development
and delivery of atomic bombs to their targets in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan, international reaction to the attacks, and
post-war atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. It then analyzes nuclear
proliferation and deterence and the bomb's legacies, which have
touched virtually every aspect of human affairs." -Colonel Gordon
W. Keiser (Ret), "US Naval Institute Proceedings" (February
2010)
"Now, I am not much of a scientist. I am especially ignorant when
it comes to the hard sciences, such as physics. It thus came as a
bit of a surprise to me that the history of what is largely an area
of research in physics could be so remarkable. Delgado, however,
knows the craft of writing as well as any historian and he makes
his subject both meaningful and exciting for even a casual
reader...Reading "Nuclear Dawn" makes the atomic bomb far more
accessible as a concept to the average reader than any other book
on the subject I have read." - David Mitchell, "BiblioBuffet"
(November 2009)
"Nuclear Dawnis a breathtaking story written incrisp, highly
readable prose. Fully illustrated, this comprehensive book fills an
important gap in our understanding of the enormous changes that the
United States military underwent during World War II." -"Sir
Read-a-Lot/sirreadalot.org"(October 2009)"
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