Energy from nuclei -- Publishing the secret of fission -- Warning of the dangers of nuclear technology -- The MAUD report -- The first chain reaction -- Manufacturing plutonium and uranium-235 -- The work at Los Alamos and Alamogordo -- The Trinity test -- The conscience of a physicist -- Scientists caution against using the bomb -- The decision to use the atomic bomb -- Choosing a target -- Dropping the atom bomb -- A president's responsibility -- Surviving the Hiroshima blast -- Surveying the damage to Nagasaki and Hiroshima -- Proposing an Atomic Energy Agency -- The need for a national nuclear energy program.
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