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245 04 The Manhattan project :|bthe birth of the atomic bomb in
the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians /
|cedited by Cynthia C. Kelly ; introduced by Richard
Rhodes.
264 1 New York :|bBlack Dog & Leventhal Publishers :
|bDistributed by Workman Pub.,|c[2007]
264 4 |c©2007
300 495 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-480) and
index.
505 0 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 --
505 0 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 --
505 0 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.
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