The Biggest Bangs
Subtitle: The Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts, the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 11, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780195145700
First sentence: On December 7, 1941, the "date which will live in infamy," a surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sank much of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, shocked Americans from their naive isolationism, and carved a permanent mark in the national character: never again would the United States permit itself to be caught by surprise.