The Secret Project
Jonah Winter, illustrated by Jeanette Winter
This book concerns the Manhattan Project and the guarded work that led to the first nuclear bomb. It looks inside the secret laboratory at Los Alamos, where people worked under tight security and secrecy. The creation was taken into the desert for testing, an event presented as changing the world. Simple text and illustrations address the project’s controversial, sensitive, and bleak subject matter.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.
