The Bomb is also a novel by Frank Harris.

The Bomb is a 1995 novel by Theodore Taylor written to protest against nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll after the natives are forced to move. It was first published by Harcourt Children's Books in October 1995. The book won the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

Plot summary [link]

Sorry Rinamu is a 16-year old boy who lives on Bikini Atoll. In the first section of the book, Sorry and the natives live through World War II under constant threat by the Japanese soldiers occupying the island. However, one day, American forces attack the island, defeating the Japanese soldiers, and freeing the island. Later, World War II ends.

However, an American battleship lands in the lagoon, and a few days later, an American commander, one of which represents Operation Crossroads, delivers the news to the natives that Bikini has been chosen as a site for nuclear tests due to "ideal" conditions, and asks the villagers to move. Most agree, but Abram, Sorry's uncle, insists that the villagers should not submit so easily to white men, yet they still do. The villagers vote to move away from the island. The American tells the natives that the atoll will be returned in a few years, but Abram and Sorry believe that he is lying.

As scientists arrive on the atoll, it is being converted to a temporary military base. Abram comes up with a plan to stop the nuclear tests by sailing into the test area with a red canoe, but he dies of a heart attack before he could carry out the plan. When Sorry decides that he should do it, the natives believe that he is insane, yet he is accompanied by Tara Malolo, a local teacher, and his maternal grandfather, Jonjen.

They carry out their plan, but the bombers fail to notice the canoe, and/or the light glinting of the tin they brought with them and they are killed by the blast.

The natives return in 1969 and stay for ten years, but doctors notice a radioactive element left over by the blast, Cesium 137, and the natives leave the island again.


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The Bomb

The Bomb may refer to:

  • A nuclear weapon, from "the atomic bomb"
  • The Bomb (film), a 2015 American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons (July 28, 2015; PBS-TV)
  • The Bomb, a 1908 novel by Frank Harris about the Haymarket Riot
  • The Bomb (band), a Chicago punk band featuring Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun
  • The Bomb (novel), a 1995 young adult novel by Theodore Taylor
  • The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind), a 1995 song by The Bucketheads
  • The Bomb, the 2007 New Young Pony Club single
  • The Bomb a leftist history written by Howard Zinn
  • "The Bomb", fourth episode of the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark
  • "The Bomb", a radio documentary broadcast by the BBC and written by D. G. Bridson, on the consequences of a nuclear bombing of Britain
  • See also

  • Da bomb (disambiguation)
  • The Bomb (film)

    The Bomb is a 2015 American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons, from theoretical scientific considerations at the very beginning, to their first use on August 6, 1945, to their global political implications in the present-day. The two-hour PBS film was written and directed by Rushmore DeNooyer, who noted the project took a year and a half to complete, since much of the film footage and images was only recently declassified by the United States Department of Defense. According to DeNooyer, “It wouldn’t take very many bombs to really change life on Earth, ... The idea that there are thousands of them sitting around is pretty scary. I don’t think people today realize that. They don’t think about it. I don’t think they are scared. But in a way, they should be.”Mark Dawidziak, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, summarized the film as follows: "'The Bomb' moves swiftly to cover Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cold War, the arms race, the Red Scare, the witch hunt, the Cuban Missile Crisis, test-ban treaties, the "Star Wars" initiative, the anti-nuke movement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of new nuclear threats." According to historian Richard Rhodes, “The invention [of 'The Bomb'] was a millennial change in human history: for the first time, we were now capable of our own destruction, as a species.”

    The Bomb (play)

    The Bomb is a play by Kevin Dyer, focusing on the IRA Brighton bombing of 1984.

    Plot

    In 2000, Jo Berry, whose father was killed in the blast, met Patrick Magee, the man who planted the bomb. The Bomb is inspired by the events which led Jo and Patrick to meet and the impact those people had on each other.

    It is sourced from interviews, research and actual and imagined dialogue. It is not a verbatim play, but is partly factual and describes real events.

    The Bomb has twice toured nationally. The Bomb was nominated for two Theatrical Management Awards.

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