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.

A collection of writings--including essays, articles, and excerpts from biographies, plays, novels, letters, and oral histories--explores the history of the Manhattan Project and analyzes its legacy.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kelly, Cynthia C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub., ©2007.
Subjects:	Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History. Atomic bomb > United States > History. History.
Online Access:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

From the editor : Preserving the Manhattan Project / Cynthia C. Kelly
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 atomic bombs / G. Pascal Zachary
Transatlantic travails / Andrew Brown.
Section 2 : 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 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.
Section 3 : An extraordinary pair
His potential outweighed any security risk / Leslie R. Groves
Scientific director for the special laboratory in New Mexico / James B. Conant and 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.
Section 4 : 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 / 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.
Section 5 : Secrecy, intelligence and counterintelligence
Unprecedented security measures / Robert S. Norris
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 / 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.
Section 7 : 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, 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.
Section 8 : Reflections on the bomb
Outwitting General Groves / Harold Agnew
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 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.
Section 9 : 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 not a soul will remember 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
The nuclear threat / Mikhail Gorbachev
Thoughts on a 21st-century Manhattan Project / George A. Cowan
Chronology
Biographies
Bibliography
Index
Text credits.

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.

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