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245 0  $a The Manhattan project : $b the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians / $c edited by Cynthia C. Kelly ; introduced by Richard Rhodes.
260    $a New York : $b Distributed by Workman Pub., $c c2007.
300    $a xiv, 495 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-480) and index.
505 00 $t Transatlantic travails / $r Andrew Brown -- $t Introduction : A great work of human collaboration / $r Richard Rhodes -- $t Section 1 : Explosive discoveries and bureaucratic inertia -- $t Thinking no pedestrian thoughts / $r Richard Rhodes -- $g The $t atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands / $r H.G. Wells -- $t If only we had been clever enough / $r Leona Marshall Libby -- $t What wasn't expected wasn't seen! / $r Edward Teller -- $t I had come close but had missed a great discovery / $r Philip Abelson -- $t Enlisting Einstein / $r William Lanouette -- $t Albert Einstein to F.D. Roosevelt / $r Albert Einsten $g and $r Franklin D. Roosevelt -- $g A $t practically irresistible super-bomb / $r Otto Frisch $g and $r Rudolf Peierls -- $t Working for Otto Frisch / $r J. Wechsler -- $t Likely to lead to decisive results / $g The $r Maud Report, March 1941 -- $t Wild notions about atom bombs / $r G. Pascal Zachary -- $t Transatlantic travails / $r Andrew Brown --
505 00 $t One top secret agreement too many / $g to $t rather fuzzy state of our thinking / $r Winston Churchill -- $g The $t stuff will be more powerful than we thought / $r Vannevar Bush -- $t You'll never get a chain reaction going here / $r Richard Rhodes -- $g The $t Chicago Pile-1 : the first chain reaction / $r Enrico Fermi -- $t Fermi was cool as a cucumber / $r Crawford Greenewalt -- $t Proceeding in the dark / $r Leslie R.Groves -- $t Swimming in syrup / $r Robert Jungk -- $g The $t Los Alamos primer : how to make an atomic bomb / $r Robert Serber -- $t These were very great men indeed / $r Richard Feynman -- $t Misunderstandings and anxieties / $r Stephane Groueff -- $g A $t weapon of devastating power will soon become available / $r Niels Bohr $g to $r Winston Churchill -- $t One top secret agreement too many / $r Winston Churchill --
505 00 $t cascade of different Oppenheimers / $t His potential outweighed any security risk / $r Jon Else -- $t Scientific director for the special laboratory in New Mexico / $r James B. Conant $g A $r Leslie R. Groves $g to $r J. Robert Oppenheimer -- $t When you looked at Captain Groves, a little alarm bell rang "caution" / $r Robert S. Norris -- $t Decisive, confident and cool / $r Robert DeVore -- $g A $t bureaucratic warrior of the first rank / $r Robert S. Norris -- $g The $t biggest S.O.B. / $r Kenneth D. Nichols -- $t Not right, do it again! / $r John Lansdale, Jr. -- $g A $t "Jewish Pan" at Berkeley / $r Kai Bird $g and $r Martin Sherwin -- $g The $t absent-minded professor / $r Berkeley Gazette, February 14, 1934 -- $t His head wreathed in a cloud of smoke / $r Edward Gerjuoy -- $g A $t psychiatrist by vocation, and a physicist by avocation / $r Jeremy Bernstein -- $g The $t most compelling man / $r Jennet Conant -- $t Appeasing General Groves / $r Kai Bird $g and $r Martin Sherwin -- $t Visions of immortality / $r Robert S. Norris -- $g An $t audacious gamble / $r Kai Bird $g and $r Martin Sherwin -- $t When Robert Oppenheimer walked onto the page / $r Joseph Kanon -- $t Doctor Atomic : the myth and the man / $r John Adams -- $g A $t cascade of different Oppenheimers / $r Jon Else --
505 00 $t Mysteries at the Met lab / $g An $t new and uncertain adventure in the wilderness / $r Isabella Karle -- $g A $t crazy place to do any war thing / $r Stirling Colgate -- $t Excitement, devotion, and patriotism prevailed / $r J. Robert Oppenheimer -- $g The $t case of the vanishing physicists / $r Stanislaw Ulam -- $t Learning on the job / $r Rebecca Diven -- $t Life at P.O. Box 1663 / $r Ruth Marshak -- $g A $t boy's adventures at Los Alamos / $r Dana Mitchell -- $t Something extraordinary was happening here / $r Katrina Mason -- $g A $t relief from the hubbub of the hill / $r Katrina Mason -- $g An $t SED at Los Alamos / $r Benjamin Bederson -- $g A $t bad time to get a new boss / $r Joseph Kanon -- $t Tumbleweed and jackrabbits in the Evergreen State / $r Steve Buckingham -- $t Making toilet paper / $r Roger Rohrbacher -- $t Termination winds / $r Michele Gerber -- $t Whoever gets there first will win the war / $r Leon Overstreet -- $g The $t whole project was like a three-legged stool / $r Walter Simon -- $t Cover stories / $r Franklin T. Matthias -- $t K-25 Plant : forty-four acres and a mile long / $r William J. Wilcox -- $t Tennessee girls on the job / $r Colleen Black -- $t Ode to life behind the fence / $r Clifford $g and $r Colleen Black -- $t Operating Oak Ridge's "calutrons" / $r Theodore Rockwell -- $t Men, write home for Christmas / $r Norman Brown -- $g An $t answer to their prayers / $r Valeria Steele -- $t All-Black crews with white foremen / $r Robert Bauman -- $t Manhattan Project sites in Manhattan / $r Robert S. Norris -- $t Manhattan Project sites in Washington, D.C. / $r Robert S. Norris -- $t Monsanto's playhouse for polonium / $r Stephane Groueff -- $t Mysteries at the Met lab / $r Isabella Karle --
505 00 $t Violence without limit / $t Unprecedented security measures / $t Robert S. Norris -- $t Security : a headache on the hill / $r Joseph Kanon -- $g A $r Martin Sherwin -- $t Mrs. Farmer, I presume / $r Laura Fermi -- $t As if they were walking in the woods / $r John Lansdale, Jr. -- $t Electric rocket story fails to launch / $r Charlotte Serber -- $g A $t spy in our midst / $r Laura Fermi -- $t Never in our wildest dreams / $r Lilli Hornig -- $g The $t youngest spies / $r Joseph Albright $g and $r Marcia Kunstel -- $t Enormoz espionage / $r Gregg Herken -- $t Undercover agents at Berkeley / $r Gregg Herken -- $t Jump start for the Soviets / $r David Holloway, $r Joseph Albright $g and $r Marcia Kunstel -- $t Holes in the security fence / $r Joseph Albright $g and $r Marcia Kunstel -- $g A $t calming role for the counterintelligence corps / $r Thomas O. Jones -- $g The $t Alsos mission : scientists as sleuths / $r Robert S. Norris -- $t From France to the Black Forest : seeking atomic scientists / $r Richard Rhodes -- $t I have been expecting you / $r John Lansdale, Jr. -- $t Section 6 : The Trinity Test -- $t Leaving the bomb project / $r Joseph Rotblat -- $t Anticipating the end of war / $r Kai Bird $g and $r Martin Sherwin -- $t Scientists will be held responsible / $r Arthur Holly Compton -- $t Advising against the bomb / $g The $r Franck Report, June 1945 -- $t No acceptable alternative / $g The $r Interim Committee Report, June 1945 -- $t Scientists petition the President / $r Leo Szilard $g and other scientists -- $t Watching Trinity / $r Thomas Farrell $g and $r Leslie R. Groves -- $t Babysitting the bomb / $r Donald Hornig -- $g A $t handful of soldiers at Trinity / $r Val Fitch -- $t Eyewitness accounts of the Trinity Test / $r Edwin McMillan, $r Kenneth Greisen, $r Enrico Fermi, $r Maurice Shapiro, $r Robert Serber -- $t Violence without limit / $r Joseph Kanon --
505 00 $t atomic bomb's peculiar "disease" / $t Aiming for military and psychological effects / $r George Weller -- $t Admiral Chester W. Nimitz : born too soon / $r Frederick L. Ashworth -- $g The $r Stephen Walker -- $t Official bombing order, 25 July 1945 / $r Thos. T. Handy -- $g A $t very sobering event : operational history of the 509th Bombardment -- $t Massive pain, suffering and horror / $r Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- $t Miss Yamaoka, you look like a monster / $r Richard B. Frank -- $t For all we know, we have created a Frankenstein! / $r Paul Boyer -- $g The $t battle of the laboratories / $r Harry S. Truman -- $g The $t culmination of years of Herculean effort / $r Henry L. Stimson -- $t Eyewitness over Nagasaki / $r William Laurence -- $t It was over! / $r Frederick J. Olivi -- $g The $t atomic bomb's peculiar "disease" / $r George Weller --
505 00 $t Why does this decision continue to haunt us? / $t Outwitting General Groves / $r Gar Alperovitz -- $t Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists / $r J. Robert Oppenheimer -- $t You have done excellent work / $r J. Robert Oppenheimer -- $g The $t citizen's guide to the atomic bomb : The Smyth Report / $r Henry DeWolf Smyth -- $t Hersey's Hiroshima / $r John Hersey -- $g The $t decision to use the atomic bomb / $r Henry L. Stimson -- $t History is often not what actually happened / $r Barton J. Bernstein -- $g A $t question of motives / $r Patrick M.S. Blackett -- $t Thank God for the atomic bomb / $r Paul Fussell -- $g The $t return to nothingness / $r Felix Morley -- $g The $t bomb in national memories / $r Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- $t Hiroshima in History / $r J. Samuel Walker -- $t Why does this decision continue to haunt us? / $r Gar Alperovitz --
505 00 $t Biographies. $t On the international control of atomic energy / $r George A. Cowan -- $t Open letter to the United Nations / $r Niels Bohr, June 1950 -- $t I hope not a soul will remember my name / $r Paul Mullins, "Louis Slotin Sonata" -- $t Atoms for peace / $r Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 1953 -- $g The $t cold war warning / $g The $r Russell-Einstein Manifesto, July 1955 -- $g A $t world free of nuclear weapons / $r George P. Schultz, $r William J. Perry, $r Henry A. Kissinger, $g and $r Sam Nunn -- $g The $t nuclear threat / $r Mikhail Gorbachev -- $t Thoughts on a 21st-century Manhattan Project / $r George A. Cowan -- $t Chronology -- $t Biographies.
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