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Primary Source Documents
Philadelphia
Inquirer Announces Atomic Bombing of Japan
Truman's
aerial leaflet reassuring the Japanese people that they will not
be harmed if their country surrenders.
Atomic
Bombing: How to Protect Yourself
a handbook from 1950
Several
hours after the destruction of Hiroshima, U.S. President Harry
S. Truman, aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta, announced the use
of the top secret weapon - Real Audio
File
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Web Sites
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Photos of Nuclear Explosions
Photos of Scientists, etc.
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Photos of Events
QuickTime Movies of Speeches, etc.
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Books:
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Vogel, P. The Last
Wave from Port Chicago Published on the Web - http://www.portchicago.org
Bernstein,
J. and Cassidy, D. Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings
at Farm Hall. Woodbury, NY: AIP Press, 1995.
Feis,
H. The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966
Groves,
L. R. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project.
Da Capo Press, 1983.
Medawar,
J. Hitler's Gift : The True Story of the Scientists Expelled
by the Nazi Regime Arcade Publishing, 2001
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Holloway,
D. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy,
1939-1956. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
Rhodes,
R. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1988.
Walker,
M. Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb.
New York: Plenum, 1995.
Teller,
E. and Shoolery, J. Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey
in Science and Politics. Perseus Books, 2001
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Herken,
G. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties
of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller.
Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 2002.
Lanouette,
W. Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the
Man Behind the Bomb University of Chicago Press, 1994
Badash,
L. Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From
Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty 1939-1963. Atlantic
Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995.
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Videos
Tapes
and
Audio:
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Atomic
Detonations in Quicktime
Trinity
and Beyond: The Atomic Movie
The
Atomic Cafe
The
Day After Trinity
Atomic
Journeys - Welcome to Ground Zero
National
Public Radio's "Revisiting the Birth of the Bomb"
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CD
ROMS: |
Atomic
Archive: Enhanced Edition: The History, Science and Consequences
of the Nuclear Age
The
Day After Trinity J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
Critical Mass,
Corbis Publishing (no longer available, if you have a used copy,
please email me)
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