THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
Bono, Sam. The National Atomic Museum: America's museum
resource for nuclear
science and history. Virginia Beach, VA, Donning Co. Publishers, c2002. 64 p.
QC773.3.U5B66 2002
Hughes, Jeff. The Manhattan Project: big science and
the atom bomb. New York,
Columbia University Press, c2002. 170 p.
QC773.3.U5H84 2002
Maddox, Robert James. Weapons for victory: the Hiroshima
decision. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2004, c1995. 215p.
D767.25.H6M23 2004
Making and using the atomic bomb. Edited by Mark McKain. San Diego, CA, Greenhaven
Press, 2003. 240 p.
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QC773.3.U5M23 2003
Newman, Robert. Enola Gay and the court of history. New
York, P. Lang, 2004.
201 p.
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D767.25.H6N48 2005
Norris, Robert S. Racing for the bomb: General Leslie R.
Groves, the Manhattan
Project's indispensable man. South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, c2002.
722 p.
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UG128.G76N67 2002
Stewart, Irvin. Organizing scientific research for war. Foreword by Vannevar
Bush.
New York, Arno Press, 1980, c1948. 358 p.
Q180.U5S8 1980
“Reprint of
the ed. published by Little, Brown, Boston, in the series Science in
World War II: Office of Scientific Research and Development.”
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BIOGRAPHIES
Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer
and the secret city of Los Alamos. New York, Simon & Schuster,
2005. 425 p.
Bibliography: p. 403-409.
QC773.A1C66 2005
From a life of physics. Edited by H. A. Bethe and others. Singapore, Teaneck,
NJ, World Scientific, 1989. 92 p.
QC71.F74 1989
Herken, Gregg. Brotherhood of the bomb: the tangled lives and loyalties of
Robert
Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York, Henry Holt and
Co., 2002. 448 p.
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C16.O62H47 2002
Hoffmann, Klaus. Otto Hahn: achievement and responsibility. New York, Springer,
2001. 276 p.
Bibliography: p. 261-264.
QD22.H2H6413 2001
Howes, Ruth H., and Caroline L. Herzenberg. Their day
in the sun: women of the
Manhattan Project. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press, 1999. 264 p.
Bibliography: p. 237-251.
QC773.3.U5H68 1999
York, Herbert F. The advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the superbomb. With
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historical essay by Hans A. Bethe. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press,
1989. 201 p.
Includes bibliographies
UG1282.A8Y67 1989
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BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
Jablon, Seymour. The origin and findings of the Atomic
Bomb Casualty Commission; a lecture. Rockville, MD, U.S. Bureau
of Radiological Health, 1973. 19 p.
RA1231.R2J23
Lindee, Susan M. Suffering made real: American science
and the survivors Hiroshima. Chicago, University of Chicago Press,
c1994. 287 p.
Bibliography: p. 259-278.
RA1231.R2L497 1994
Nan to mo shirenai mirai ni. [The Crazy iris and other
stories of the atomic aftermath.] Oe, Kenzaburo, ed. New York, Grove
Press, 1985. 204 p.
Selected translation of Nan to mo shirenai mirai ni.
PL782.E8N3 1985
Radiation-induced chromosome damage in man. Edited by Takaaki Ishihara and
others. New York, A. R. Liss, 1983. 636 p.
Includes bibliographies.
RB155.R25 1983
Schull, William J. Song among the ruins. Cambridge, MA,
Harvard University Press, 1990. 305 p.
Bibliography: p. 281-284.
RA1231.R2S384 1990
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POSTWAR INCIDENTS: FROM THE BIKINI
ISLANDS TO CHERNOBYL
Bikini Islands
Delgado, James P. Ghost fleet: the sunken ships of Bikini
Atoll. Honolulu, University
of Hawaii Press, 1996. 204 p.
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G525.D38 1996
Radiological conditions at Bikini Atoll: prospects for
resettlement. Vienna,
International Atomic Energy Agency, 1998. 67 p.
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TD196.R3R34624 1998
Weisgall, Jonathan M. Operation crossroads: the atomic
tests at Bikini Atoll. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, c1994.
415 p.
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U264.3.W43 1994
Three-mile Island
Gray, Mike, and Ira Rosen. The warning: accident at
Three Mile Island. New York,
Norton & Co., 2003. 294 p.
TK1345.H37G7 2003
Osif, Bonnie A., Anthony J. Baratta, Thomas W. Conkling. TMI 25 years later:
the
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident and its impact. University Park,
PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, c2004. 158 p.
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TK1345.H37O85 2004
Walker, J. Samuel. Three Mile Island: a nuclear crisis in historical perspective.
Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. 303 p.
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TK1345.H37W35 2004
Hampton, Wilborn. Meltdown : a race against nuclear
disaster at Three Mile Island:
a reporter's story. Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 2001. 104 p.
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TK1345.H37H36 2001
Chernobyl
Petryna, Adriana. Life exposed: biological citizens
after Chernobyl. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, c2002.
264 p.
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RA569.P43 2002
Radiation injury and the Chernobyl catastrophe. Edited by
Nicholas Dainiak and others. Miamisburg, OH, Alpha Med Press,
c1997. 313 p.
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“Proceedings of the International Conference on the Health Effects of Low
Dose Radiation, Houston, Texas, March 30-April 2, 1993 and Biological Effects
of Radiation Injury, Minsk, Republic of Belarus, March 22-25, 1996.”
“International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation.”
RA569.R265 1997
Radioecology after Chernobyl: biogeochemical pathways
of artificial radionuclides. Edited by Sir Frederick Warner
and Roy M. Harrison. Chichester, Eng.; New York, Published
on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the
Environment (SCOPE) of the International Council of Scientific
Unions (ICSU) by Wiley, c1993. 367 p.
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TD196.R3R3464 1993
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BOOKS FOR YOUNGER READERS
Akasaka, Miyoshi. Daigo-Fukuryumaru: the witness on
the ocean. Translated by Tomoko Kinoshita. Tokyo, Kin no Hoshisha,
1990. 41 p.
UF767.A34713 1990
Translation of Wasurenai de.
Anderson, Dale Milwaukee. The atom bomb project.
Milwaukee, WI, World
Almanac Library, 2004. 32 p.
QC773.3.U5A56 2004
Bankston, John. Enrico Fermi and the nuclear reactor. Bear,
DL, Mitchell Lane
Publishers, 2003. 48 p.
QC16.F46B36 2003
Crewe, Sabrina and Dale Anderson. The Atom Bomb Project. Milwaukee,
WI, Gareth Stevens Publisher, 2005. 32 p.
QC773.3.U5C73 2005
Foley, Michael. Harry S. Truman. Foreword by Walter Cronkite. Philadelphia,
Chelsea. House Publishers, 2004. 106 p.
E814.F65 2004
Lawton, Clive A. Hiroshima: the story of the first atom
bomb. Cambridge, MA,
Candlewick Press, c2004. 48 p.
D767.25.H6L34 2004
Orr, Tamara. The atom bomb: creating and exploding the
first nuclear weapon. New
York, Rosen Pub. Group, c2005. 64 p.
UG1282.A8O77 2005
Pasachoff, Naomi. Niels Bohr: physicist and humanitarian. Berkeley
Heights, NJ,
Enslow Publishers, c2003. 128 p.
QC16.B63P37 2003
Whiting, Jim. Otto Hahn and the story of nuclear fission. Bear, DL, Mitchell
Lane
Publishers, 2004. 48 p.
Bibliography: p. 46
QD22.H2W45 2004
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