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Manhattan Project


Manhattan Project Books

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
The Wives of Los Alamos
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Feynman
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
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The Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Atomic City Girls by Janet BeardThe OSSI Model - The Gannon Transcripts by Kent SternStorytellers at the Columbia River by Nancy Danielson Mendenhall
Atomic Fiction
67 books — 19 voters
The Day the Sun Rose Twice by Ferenc Morton SzaszThe General and the Genius by James W. KunetkaInventing Los Alamos by Jon HunnerAmerican Prometheus by Kai BirdInside Box 1663 by Eleanor Jette
Los Alamos
48 books — 1 voter

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesNow It Can Be Told by Leslie R. GrovesThe Girls of Atomic City by Denise KiernanLittle Boy by John SmithShockwave by Stephen Walker
Manhattan Project
55 books — 23 voters

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Denise Kiernan
“ It turned out that between 1945 and 1947, 18 people were injected with plutonium, specifically: 11 at Rochester, New York, 3 at the University of Chicago, 3 at UC San Francisco, and 1, Ebb Cade, at Oak Ridge. Several thousand human radiation experiments were conducted between 1944 and 1974. In 1994, President Clinton appointed the Advisory Committee of Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) to investigate these and other experiments funded by the United States government. Their final report was pub ...more ”
― Denise Kiernan
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Israel Morrow
“ The worst lie ever told is that it is easier to destroy than to create. This lie makes people apathetic about a number of imminently avoidable horrors, particularly the nuclear ones. But Oppenheimer didn’t just go outside one day and trip over an atomic bomb. Nuclear development required trillions of dollars and a massive sustained effort by America’s top politicians, military advisors, and scientific geniuses. Not one damn bit of it was easy. It was certainly harder that sitting down with Stali ...more ”
― Israel Morrow, Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
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