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The Atomic City Girls
"The Atomic City Girls is a fascinating and compelling novel about a little-known piece of WWII history."—Maggie Leffler, international bestselling author of The Secrets of Flight In the bestselling t...radition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months—a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders. The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government’s plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June’s search for answers. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Describes In Human, Political, And Scientific Detail The Complete Story Of How The Bomb Was Developed, From The Turn-of-the-century Discovery Of The Power Of The Atom, To The First Bombs Dropped On Ja...pan. Part 1. Profound And Necessary Truth -- 1. Moonshine -- 2. Atoms And Void -- 3. Tvi -- 4. The Long Grave Already Dug -- 5. Men From Mars -- 6. Machines -- 7. Exodus -- 8. Stirring And Digging -- 9. An Extensive Burst -- Part 2. A Peculiar Sovereignty -- 10. Neutrons -- 11. Cross Sections -- 12. A Communication From Britain -- 13. The New World -- 14. Physics And Desert Country -- 15. Different Animals -- 16. Revelations -- 17. The Evils Of This Time -- Part 3. Life And Death -- 18. Trinity -- 19. Tongues Of Fire -- Epilogue. Richard Rhodes. Bibliography: P. 848-861. Includes Bilbiographies And Index.
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.
Originally Published In Single Magazine Form As The Manhattan Projects #1-5. The Manhattan Projects Is A Comic Series That Started In 2012 From Image Comics. It Concerns An Alternate History Of The En...d Of World War Ii In Which The Manhattan Project Was A Front For Other More Esoteric Science Fiction Ideas. V. 1. Science. Bad. Jonathan Hickman, Writer ; Nick Pitarra, Artist.
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 2: They Rule
Originally Published In Single Magazine Form As The Manhattan Projects #1-5. The Manhattan Projects Is A Comic Series That Started In 2012 From Image Comics. It Concerns An Alternate History Of The En...d Of World War Ii In Which The Manhattan Project Was A Front For Other More Esoteric Science Fiction Ideas. V. 1. Science. Bad. Jonathan Hickman, Writer ; Nick Pitarra, Artist.
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 3: Building
The Manhattan Projects Is A Comic Series That Started In 2012 From Image Comics. It Concerns An Alternate History Of The End Of World War Ii In Which The Manhattan Project Was A Front For Other More E...soteric Science Fiction Ideas.
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 5: The Cold War
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Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.
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. ...Born Out Of A Small Research Project That Began In 1939, The Manhattan Project Brought Together The Cream Of The Scientific Community And The Military To Create And Perfect A Weapon More Powerful Than Any The World Had Known. Racing Against Time As The War Raged In Europe And Asia, And Against Our Enemies, Whom We Feared Were Pursuing Similar Ends, The Project Would Eventually Employ More Than 125,000 People And Cost A Total Of Over $2 Billion - And The Entire Operation Was Conducted Under A Shroud Of Secrecy, At Remote Sites Around The Country. This Groundbreaking Book - The First Of Its Kind - Collects The Writings And Thoughts Of The Original Participants In The Manhattan Project, Along With Pieces By The Most Important Historians And Interpreters Of The Subject. It Is A Rich And Comprehensive Compilation Of Documents, Essays, Articles, And Excerpts From Histories, Biographies, Plays, Novels, Letters, Oral Histories, And More, And Is The Freshest, Most Multi-faceted Exploration Yet Of The Topic. Including Material By And About J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Leslie Groves, Klaus Fuchs, Henry Stimson, Vannevar Bush, Harry S Truman, Neils Bohr, And Many Other Key Figures, It Also Collects The Writings And Testimony Of Those In The Trenches At The Project, Their Families, And Local Eyewitnesses. Finally, The Book Includes Thoughts And Concerns About The Bomb, Set Down In The Aftermath Of Its Deployment, By Politicians, Writers, Artists, And Others Who Saw That The World Would Never Again Be The Same. Assembled With Authority And Care By The President Of The Atomic Heritage Foundation - In Cooperation With A Team Of Advising Historians That Included The Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes - The Manhattan Project Is An Invaluable Addition To The Historical Record As Well As A Gripping Narrative Of Scientific Discovery, Military Strategy, And Moral Reflection. -- From Dust Jacket. 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. Edited By Cynthia C. Kelly ; Introduced By Richard Rhodes. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [476]-480) And Index.
The Berlin Project
New York Times Bestselling Author Gregory Benford Creates An Alternate History Of The Creation Of The Atom Bomb That Explores What Could Have Happened If The Bomb Was Ready To Be Used By June 6, 1944.... Karl Cohen, A Chemist And Mathematician Who Is Part Of The Manhattan Project, Has Discovered An Alternate Solution For Creating The Uranium Isotope Needed To Cause A Chain Reaction: U-235. After Convincing General Groves Of His New Method, Cohen And His Team Of Scientists Work At Oak Ridge Preparing To Have A Nuclear Bomb Ready To Drop By The Summer Of 1944 In An Effort To Stop The War On The Western Front What Ensues Is An Altered Account Of World War Ii In This Taut Thriller. Combining Fascinating Science With Intimate And True Accounts Of Several Members Of The Manhattan Project, The Berlin Project Is An Astounding Novel That Reimagines History And What Could Have Happened If The Atom Bomb Was Ready In Time To Stop Hitler From Killing Millions Of People--
The Secret Project
The World's Greatest Scientists Gather In A Secret Town In The Desert To Develop The Atomic Bomb.--
The Manhattan Projects: Deluxe Edition, Volume 1
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