Top Secret Science: Projects You Aren't Supposed to Know About

by Jennifer Swanson

Overview

Deadly bombs. Human experiments. Spies and black ops. Top secret projects aren’t just the stuff of  fantasy in books and movies. They are real, and some are even happening right now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666311464
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/15/2021
Series:	Scary Science
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Jennifer Swanson is the author of over 14 nonfiction books for children. She specializes in writing about science and technology. Her children’s book Body Bugs: Invisible Creatures Lurking Inside You was a 2012 Book of Note with the Pennsylvania Librarian Association. Jennifer has her M.S. Ed in K-8 science, is a middle school science instructor, and lives in Jacksonville, Florida, with her family.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Secret World 4

Chapter 2 Dangerous Weapons 6

Chapter 3 Hidden Programs 12

Chapter 4 Human Experiments 20

Chapter 5 Spies and Secret Messages 24

Chapter 6 Scary Science 28

Glossary 30

Read More 31

Internet Sites 31

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

The six short chapters in the book will hold students spellbound about secret projects performed in the past.

Reading Today Online

04/01/2014
Gr 4–7—Decidedly not for the weak of stomach, these provocative surveys aim to shock—and, by and large, succeed. Top Secret Science, the mildest of the lot, covers suppressed government projects from Britain's World War II anthrax research to Area 51 and other U.S. "black ops" but only mentions Nazi concentration camp experiments in passing. The other volumes go for the (dis)gusto: from photos of a smallpox victim on the cover of Dangerous Diseases and equally disturbing views of animal vivisection in Mutant Animals to accounts of Mad Scientists who drank the vomit of a yellow fever patient, self removed an appendix, or kept a dog's head alive. Some of the photos are uncaptioned filler, but mesmerized readers are unlikely to notice, much less mind.

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