It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Day We Lost the H-Bomb by Barbara Moran
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber’s payload–four unarmed thermonuclear bombs–across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest...
The Day We Lost the H-Bomb by Barbara Moran is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.
This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Day We Lost the H-Bomb aloud.
The Day We Lost the H-Bomb is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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