The Manhattan project : the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians / edited by Cynthia C. Kelly ; introduced by Richard Rhodes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [476]-480) and index.
Contents:
Transatlantic travails / Andrew Brown -- Introduction : A great work of human collaboration / Richard Rhodes -- Section 1 : Explosive discoveries and bureaucratic inertia -- 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 had 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, March 1941 -- Wild notions about atom bombs / G. Pascal Zachary -- Transatlantic travails / Andrew Brown -- One top secret agreement too many / to rather fuzzy state of our thinking / Winston Churchill -- The stuff will be more powerful than we thought / Vannevar Bush -- You'll never get a chain reaction going here / Richard Rhodes -- The Chicago Pile-1 : the first chain reaction / Enrico Fermi -- Fermi was cool as a cucumber / Crawford Greenewalt -- Proceeding in the dark / 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 become available / Niels Bohr to Winston Churchill -- One top secret agreement too many / Winston Churchill -- cascade of different Oppenheimers / His potential outweighed any security risk / Jon Else -- Scientific director for the special laboratory in New Mexico / James B. Conant A Leslie R. Groves to J. Robert Oppenheimer -- When you looked at Captain Groves, a little alarm bell rang "caution" / Robert S. Norris -- Decisive, confident and cool / Robert DeVore -- A bureaucratic warrior of the first rank / Robert S. Norris -- The biggest S.O.B. / Kenneth D. Nichols -- Not right, do it again! / John Lansdale, Jr. -- A "Jewish Pan" at Berkeley / Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin -- The absent-minded professor / Berkeley Gazette, February 14, 1934 -- His head wreathed in a cloud of smoke / Edward Gerjuoy -- A psychiatrist by vocation, and a physicist by avocation / Jeremy Bernstein -- 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 onto the page / Joseph Kanon -- Doctor Atomic : the myth and the man / John Adams -- A cascade of different Oppenheimers / Jon Else -- Mysteries at the Met lab / An new and uncertain adventure in the wilderness / Isabella Karle -- 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 / Rebecca Diven -- Life at P.O. Box 1663 / Ruth Marshak -- A boy's adventures at Los Alamos / Dana Mitchell -- Something extraordinary was happening here / Katrina Mason -- 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 like a three-legged stool / Walter Simon -- Cover stories / Franklin T. Matthias -- K-25 Plant : forty-four acres and a mile long / William J. Wilcox -- Tennessee girls on the job / Colleen Black -- Ode to life behind the fence / Clifford 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 S. Norris -- Manhattan Project sites in Washington, D.C. / Robert S. Norris -- Monsanto's playhouse for polonium / Stephane Groueff -- Mysteries at the Met lab / Isabella Karle -- Violence without limit / Unprecedented security measures / Robert S. Norris -- Security : a headache on the hill / Joseph Kanon -- A 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 -- Undercover agents at Berkeley / 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 / John Lansdale, Jr. -- Section 6 : The 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 / Thomas Farrell and 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 -- atomic bomb's peculiar "disease" / Aiming for military and psychological effects / George Weller -- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz : born too soon / Frederick L. Ashworth -- The Stephen Walker -- Official bombing order, 25 July 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 was over! / Frederick J. Olivi -- The atomic bomb's peculiar "disease" / George Weller -- Why does this decision continue to haunt us? / Outwitting General Groves / Gar Alperovitz -- Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- You have done excellent work / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- The citizen's guide to the atomic bomb : The Smyth Report / Henry DeWolf Smyth -- Hersey's Hiroshima / John Hersey -- The decision to use the atomic bomb / Henry L. Stimson -- History is often not what actually happened / Barton J. 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 -- Biographies. On the international control of atomic energy / George A. Cowan -- Open letter to the United Nations / Niels Bohr, June 1950 -- I hope not a soul will remember my name / Paul Mullins, "Louis Slotin Sonata" -- Atoms for peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower, December 1953 -- The 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 -- The nuclear threat / Mikhail Gorbachev -- Thoughts on a 21st-century Manhattan Project / George A. Cowan -- Chronology -- Biographies.
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