| Description |
495 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-480) and index. |
| Contents |
Preserving the Manhattan Project / Cynthia C. Kelly ; A great work of human collaboration / Richard Rhodes ; Section One: Explosive discoveries : Thinking no pedestrian thoughts / Richard Rhodes ; The atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands / H. G. Wells ; If only we had been clever enough / Leona Marshall Libby ; What wasn't expected wasn't seen! / Edward Teller ; I had come close but missed a great discovery / Philip Abelson ; Enlisting Einstein / William Lanouette ; Albert Einstein to F.D.Roosevelt / Albert Einsten and Franklin D. Roosevelt ; A practically irresistible super-bomb / Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls ; Working for Otto Frisch / J. Wechsler ; Likely to lead to decisive results / The Maud Report, July 1941 ; Wild notions of atomic bombs / G. Pascal Zachary ; Transatlantic travails / Andrew Brown ; Section Two: An unprecedented alliance : The rather fuzzy state of our thinking / James Hershberg ; The stuff will be more powerful than we thought / Vannevar Bush ; You'll never get a chain reaction here / Richard Rhodes ; The Chicago Pile-I: the first chain reaction / Enrico Fermi ; Fermi was as cool as a cucumber / Crawford Greenewalt ; Proceeding in the dark / General Leslie R.Groves ; Swimming in syrup / Robert Jungk ; The Los Alamos primer: how to make an atomic bomb / Robert Serber ; These were very great men indeed / Richard Feynman ; Misunderstandings and anxieties / Stephane Groueff ; A weapon of devastating power will soon be available / Niels Bohr to Winston Churchill ; One top secret agreement too many / Winston Churchill -- Section Three: An extraordinary pair : His potential outweighed any security risk / General Leslie R. Groves ; Scientific director for the special laboratory in New Mexico / James B. Conant and General Leslie R. Groves to J. Robert Oppenheimer ; When you looked at Groves, a little alarm bell rang "caution," / William Whipple ; Decisive, confident and cool / Robert DeVore ; A bureaucratic warrior of the first rank / Robert S. Norris ; The biggest S.O.B. / Colonel Kenneth D. Nichols ; Not right - do it again! / Colonel John Lansdale, Jr. ; A "Jewish Pan" at Berkeley / Edith Jenkins ; The absent-minded professor / Berkeley Gazette, February 14, 1934 ; His head wreathed in a cloud of smoke / Edward Guerjoy ; A psychiatrist by vocation, a physicist by avocation / Isidor I. Rabi ; The most compelling man / Jennet Conant ; Appeasing General Groves / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin ; Visions of immortality / Robert S. Norris ; An audacious gamble / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin ; When Robert Oppenheimer walked on to the page / Joseph Kanon ; Doctor Atomic: the myth and the man / John Adams ; A cascade of different Oppenheimers / Jon Else -- |
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Section Four: Secret cities : A new and uncertain adventure in the wilderness / Stephane Groueff ; A crazy place to do any war thing / Stirling Colgate ; Excitement, devotion, and patriotism prevailed / J. Robert Oppenheimer ; The case of the vanishing physicists / Stanislaw Ulam ; Learning on the job / Becky Diven ; Life at P. O. Box 1663 / Ruth Marshak ; A boy's adventures at Los Alamos / Dana Mitchell ; Something extraordinary was happening here / Ellen Wilder Bradbury ; A relief from the hubbub of the hill / Katrina Mason ; An SED at Los Alamos / Benjamin Bederson ; A bad time to get a new boss / Joseph Kanon ; Tumbleweed and jackrabbits in the Evergreen State / Steve Buckingham ; Making toilet paper / Roger Rohrbacher ; Termination winds / Michele Gerber ; Whoever gets there first will win the war / Leon Overstreet ; The whole project was a three-legged stool / Walter Simon ; Cover stories / Colonel Franklin Matthias ; K-25 Plant: forty-four acres and a mile long / Bill Wilcox ; Tennessee girls on the job / Colleen Black ; Ode to life behind the fence / Cliff and Colleen Black ; Operating Oak Ridge's "calutrons" / Theodore Rockwell ; Men, write home for Christmas / Norman Brown ; An answer to their prayers / Valeria Steele ; All-Black crews with white foremen / Robert Bauman ; Manhattan Project sites in Manhattan / Robert Norris ; Manhattan Project sites in Washington, D.C. / Robert Norris ; Monsanto's playhouse for polonium / Stephane Groueff ; Mysteries at the Met lab / Isabella Karle -- Section Five: Secrecy, intelligence and counterintelligence : Unprecedented security measures / Robert S. Norris on General Leslie R. Groves ; Security: a headache on the hill / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin ; Mrs. Farmer, I presume / Laura Fermi ; As if they were walking in the woods / John Lansdale, Jr. ; Electric rocket story fails to launch / Charlotte Serber ; A spy in our midst / Laura Fermi ; Never in our wildest dreams / Lilli Hornig ; The youngest spies / Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel ; Enormoz espionage / Gregg Herken ; Jump start for the Soviets / David Holloway; Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel ; Holes in the security fence / Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel ; A calming role for the counterintelligence corps / Thomas O. Jones ; The Alsos mission: scientists as sleuths / Robert S. Norris ; From France to the Black Forest: seeking atomic scientists / Richard Rhodes ; I have been expecting you / Colonel John Lansdale, Jr. -- Section Six: Trinity Test : Leaving the bomb project / Joseph Rotblat ; Anticipating the end of war / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin ; Scientists will be held responsible / Arthur Holly Compton ; Advising against the bomb / The Franck Report, June 1945 ; No acceptable alternative / The Interim Committee Report, June 1945 ; Scientists petition the President / Leo Szilard and other scientists ; Watching Trinity / Brigadier General Thomas Farrell and General Leslie R. Groves ; Babysitting the bomb / Donald Hornig ; A handful of soldiers at Trinity / Val Fitch ; Eyewitness accounts of the Trinity Test / Edwin McMillan, Kenneth Greisen, Enrico Fermi, Maurice Shapiro, Robert Serber ; Violence without limit / Joseph Kanon -- |
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Section Seven: Dropping the bombs : Aiming for military and psychological effects / Target Committee ; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: born too soon / Frederick L. Ashworth ; The 509th Composite Group at Tinian Island / Stephen Walker ; Official bombing order, July 25, 1945 / Thos. T. Handy ; A very sobering event : operational history of the 509th Bombardment ; Massive pain, suffering and horror / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ; Miss Yamaoka, you look like a monster / Richard B. Frank ; For all we know, we have created a Frankenstein / Paul Boyer ; The battle of the laboratories / Harry S. Truman ; The culmination of years of Herculean effort / Henry L. Stimson ; Eyewitness over Nagasaki / William Laurence ; It's over / Lieutenant Colonel Frederick J. Olivi ; The atomic bomb's peculiar "disease" / George Weller -- Section Eight: Reflecting on the bombs : Outwitting General Groves / Harold Agnew ; Some kind of destiny / James Bradley ; Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists / J. Robert Oppenheimer ; You have done excellent work / J. Robert Oppenheimer ; A citizen's guide to the atomic bomb: The Smyth Report / Henry D. Smyth ; Hersey's Hiroshima / John Hersey ; The decision to use the atomic bomb / Henry L. Stimson ; History is not what actually happened / Barton Bernstein ; A question of motives / Patrick M. S. Blackett ; Thank God for the atomic bomb / Paul Fussell ; The return to nothingness / Felix Morley ; The bomb in national memories / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa ; Hiroshima in History / J. Samuel Walker ; Why does this decision continue to haunt us? / Gar Alperovitz --Section Nine: Living with the bomb : On the international control of atomic energy / Acheson-Lilienthal Report, March 1946 ; Open letter to the United Nations / Niels Bohr, June 1950 ; I hope no one remembers my name / Paul Mullins, "Louis Slotin Sonata" ; Atoms for peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 1953 ; A cold war warning / The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, July 1955 ; A world free of nuclear weapons / George P. Schultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn ; A nuclear threat / Mikhail Gorbachev ; Thoughts on a 21st century Manhattan Project / George Cowan. |
| Subject |
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
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Manhattan Project (U.S.) |
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History. |
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Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
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Atomic bomb. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Kelly, Cynthia C.
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| ISBN |
9781579127473 |
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1579127479 |
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