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Town That Gave Birth to the Bomb." World War II os 22.8 (2007):
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Tells of the
happening surrounding the creation and the daily life around the secret
city of Los Alamos, focusing especially on J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Boorse, Henry A.,
Lloyd Motz, and Jefferson H. Weaver. The Atomic Scientists: a
Biographical History. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. 001-472.
Chronicles the
important players in the development of the Atomic Theory. It presents
the reader with lives, the activities, and the drive that the great
physicists talked about in this book have/had. It fills the reader in
on what each of the key players were responisble for and connects the
people together by how they had influenced one another.
Brown, Andrew. The
Neutron and the Bomb: : a Biography of Sir James Chadwick. New York:
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This is the first
biography of Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974), Nobel Laureate and
discoverer of the neutron. His central role in the unfolding drama of
nuclear physics is reflected in his publications and his correspondence
with leading figures like Bohr and Rutherford. This book provides in
in-depth look at one of the key players in the discovery of atomic
energy.
Campbell, John W.
The Atomic Story. Kingsford: H. Holt & Company, 1947. 001-297.
Traces atomic energy
from the time of Democritus to 1945's exploding of the bomb over Japan.
Campbell follows the developments in chemistry and physics, from
Dalton's atomic theory, to Becquerel's identification of atomic energy,
Bohr's findings of the nucleus, and so on, to the U.S. Manhattan
Project.
Cohen, Daniel. The
Manhattan Project. Brookfield: Twenty-First Century Books, 1999.
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Dicusses the
personalities and events involved in the research, development and
detonation of the atomic bombs built by the United States in the 1940s.
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi.
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II. 1st ed. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 2005. 001-382.
With startling
revelations, Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World
War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the
story--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan--Hasegawa for the
first time puts the last months of the war into international
perspective.
Keller, Alex. The
Infancy of Atomic Physics: Hercules in His Cradle. Oxford:
Clarendon P, 1983. 3-217.
Hasegawa rewrites the
usual history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By looking at
all three of the key actors in the story--the United States, the Soviet
Union, and Japan--Hasegawa puts the last months of the war into
international perspective.
Kelly, Cynthia C.,
ed. The Manhattan Project: the Birth of the Atomic Bomb by Its
Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians. New York: Black Dog &
Leventhal, 2007. 17-495.
Gives the reader a
first hand look at the happenings that occurred with the Manhattan
Project. Covers the discoveries that led to the need of the Manhattan
Project to the daily lives of people in the Project. Kelly gives the
reader primary documents that offer accounts from people that were
actually involved in the project.
McKay, Alywn. The
Making of the Atomic Age. New York: Oxford UP, 1984. 001-153.
Tells the common
reader about the major events in the history of the nuclear age. It
starts with the discovery of the electron in the late 1890s and the
scientific advances that followed this discovery. It also covers the
move in 1939 of nuclear energy into the military field. In the 1950s
came the big industrial growth of nuclear power. The closing chapter
reflect on the future of nuclear power.
Rhodes, Richard.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
009-886.
Rhodes provides
extensive information on the biographical background and scientific
accomplishments of the international partnership of scientists that
concluded with the creation of the first atomic bomb. Rhodes addresses
the intricate ethical problems faced by the scientists of the Manhattan
Project, mainly the allusion of creating such a weapon of mass
destruction. Originally concerned with ‘‘pure’’ scientific research,
those who worked on the Manhattan Project were forced to think about the
lasting effect of their research efforts on the future of the human
race.
Rotter, Andrew J.
Hiroshima: the World's Bomb. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. 001-371.
This book tells the
international story behind the development of the atom bomb. He details
the growth in the 1930s and '40s of a world-wide community of scientists
dedicated to developing a weapon that could undo the evil in Nazi
Germany, and he describes the harnessing of their efforts by the US
wartime government. This book also covers political and strategic
decisions that led to the bombing itself, the impact of the bomb on
Hiroshima and the endgame of the Pacific War, the effects of the bombing
and the bomb on society and culture, and the state of all things nuclear
in the early 21st century world.
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