Stalin and the Bomb

by David Holloway

Richard Hewlett and Oscar Anderson, Jr., The New World: A History of the US Atomic Energy Commission Vol. 1, 1939–1946, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield: A History of the US Atomic Energy Commission Vol. 2, 1947–1952, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990 (these volumes were originally published in 1962 and 1969); Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, 1953–1961, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989; Margaret Gowing, Britain and Atomic Energy, London: Macmillan, 1964; Margaret Gowing (assisted by Lorna Arnold) Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy 1945–1952, Vol. 1: Policy Making, Vol. 2: Policy Execution, London: Macmillan, 1974; McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival, New York: Random House, 1988; Spencer Weart, Scientists in Power, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979; John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai, China Builds the Bomb, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. A very useful general history is Bertrand Goldschmidt, The Atomic Complex: A Worldwide Political History of Nuclear Energy, La Grange Park: American Nuclear Society, 1982 (originally published in France in 1980).