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Title: The hell bomb

Author: William L. Laurence


Release date: January 29, 2025 [eBook #75243]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950

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THE
HELL BOMB

BY
William L. Laurence
[Logo]
1951      NEW YORK
ALFRED A. KNOPF
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK, PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Copyright 1950 by The Curtis Publishing Co. Copyright 1950 by William L. Laurence. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper. Manufactured in the United States of America. Published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Limited.

FIRST AND SECOND PRINTINGS
BEFORE PUBLICATION
THIRD PRINTING, JANUARY 1951
To FLORENCE