Legacies of the Manhattan Project: A Case Study in the Consequences of Conflict - Bibliography
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Kai Bird and Marty Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alfred Knopf, 2005. Great Biography of Oppenheimer
Jennet Conant, 109 East Palace, Simon & Schuster, 2007. More human side, story of Dorothy McKibben, the gatekeeper.
John Coster-Mullen, Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man. Many declassified documents. Spiral bound, can ordered from Amazon.
Dan P. Curry: US Strategic Nuclear Policy: A Video History, 1945-2004. Website, worth watching.
Gregg Herken, The Brotherhood of the Bomb, Henry Holt Books 2002. The political background.
Cindy Kelly, editor, The Manhattan Project, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007. General background.
Heinar Kipphardt, In the Matter of J.Robert Oppenheimer, a docudrama available on Amazon. Excellent covers Oppenheimer's loss of clearance. Also Oppenheimer, TV Mini Series, BBC, with Sam Waterson, 1980
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Shuster, 1986. The Bible on Manhattan Project. Many other books by Rhodes on this subject, most recent: Rhodes, Twilight of the Bomb, Borzoi Books, 2010
Gino Segre, Faust in Copenhagen, Viking Penguin, 2007. Physics in the 1930ties.
Stan Norris, Racing for the Bomb, Stepforth Press, 2002, General Groves in detail.