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"The Nuclear Express: A Political History of The Bomb  & Its Proliferation" [2009] by Thomas C. Reed & Danny B. Stillman Zenith Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2009] for $19.80 |
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"A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels In The World of Atomic Weaponry" [2008] by Nathan Hodge & Sharon Weinberger Bloomsbury 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2008] for $16.49 |
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"Hell's Fire: A Documentary History of The American Atomic Thermonuclear Weapons Projects, From Hiroshima To The Cold War & The War On Terror" [2008] Edited by Lenny Flank Red & Black Publrs 9x5¾ pb [3/2008] for $16.19 |
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"Arsenals of Folly: The Making of The Nuclear Arms Race" [2007] by Richard Rhodes Knopf 10x5¾ hardcover [10/2007] for $19.11 |
 | "The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches From The Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking" [2007] by William Langewiesche FS&G 8x5½ pb [4/2008] for $8.83 FS&G 8¼x5¾ hardcover [5/2007] for $12.42 |
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"Spying On The Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence From Nazi Germany To Iran & North Korea" [2006] by Jeffrey T. Richelson W.W.Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $22.02 |
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"The Survival Hot List: Conquering The Seven Deadly Trends" [2006] by Joseph A. Bagnall iUniverse 9x6 pb [1/2006] for $13.95 author's website |
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"The Bomb: A Life" [2005] by Gerard J. DeGroot Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2005] for $18.45 |
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"The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex" [2002, rev 2004] by Dr. Helen Caldicott New Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/2004] for $7.18 New Press 8¼x6¼ pb [4/2002] out of print/many used |
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"Atomic Archive: History, Science, Consequences" CD-ROM [2002] by Chris Griffith A.J. Software & Multimedia CD-ROM [4/2002] for $19.77 official website |
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"Nuclear Weapons" [2001] by William Lambers
self-published 8¼x6¼ 3rd edition pb [5/2002] for $10.17 book & study guide & CD-ROM package self-published set [5/2003] for $24.95 |
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"The Wizards of Armageddon: The Untold Story of The Men Who Have Devised The Plans & Shaped The Policies On How To Use The Bomb" [1983] by Fred M. Kaplan A study of U.S. nuclear policy as devised & reshaped by a group of civilians at RAND Corp. [est. 1948] in Santa Monica, CA Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/91] for $25.95 S&S hardcover [1/83] out of print/used |
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"A World Destroyed: Hiroshima & The Origins of The Arms Race" [1975] by Martin J. Sherwin Stanford Univ Press 8¾x5½ pb [8/2003] for $16.47 Stanford Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [11/87] out of print/used |
Atomic Fiction
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"An Atomic Romance: A Novel" [2005] by Bobbie Ann Mason set against the backdrop of a Kentucky uranium enrichment plant Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2005] for $15.72 Blackstone audio CD [9/2005] for $18.87 |
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"Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" [2005 novel] by Lydia Millet Harvest 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2006] for $10.20 Soft Skull Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2005] for $19.00 publisher bookpage • author website |
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"Level 7" [classic 1959 novel] by Mordecai Roshwald, edited by David Seed The diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the electronic controls of an intercontinental missile system installed four thousand feet underground. Univ WI Press 9x6 pb [5/2004] for $11.53 Signet mass pb [1/59] out of print/used |
Atomic Cinema
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"Atomic Testing: Declassified" [2007]
St. Clair Vision b&w/color DVD set [6/2007] 3 disks for $9.98 37 short features including "A is For Atom"; "A New Look At The H-Bomb"; "About Fallout"; "The Atom & Biological Science"; "The Atom Strikes!"; "Atomic Alert"; "Atomic Weapons Tests: Trinity Through Buster-Jangle"; "Bombproof"; "Challenge of Ideas"; "The Day Called X"; "Developing and Producing The B-61"; "Duck and Cover"; "Fallout: When and How To Protect Yourself Against It"; "Flash of Darkness"; "The House In The Middle"; "Information Program Within Public Shelters"; "Let's Face It"; "The Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation"; "Military Effects Studies On Operation Castle"; "News Magazine of The Screen: Atomic Energy"; "Occupying A Public Shelter"; "Operation Crossroads"; "Operation Cue" [1955]; "Operation Cue" [1964]; "Operation Hardtack: Part 1 - Basic Effects"; "Operation Hardtack: Part 2 - High Altitude Tests"; "Operation Doorstep"; "Operation Upshot-Knothole"; "Our Cities Must Fight"; "Radiological Defense"; "Survival Under Atomic Attack"; "Tale of Two Cities"; "Target You"; "This Is Not A Test"; "Town of Times"; "Warning Red"; "What You Should Know About Biological Warfare"; "You Can Beat The A-Bomb"; plus bonus items including radio programs and photo & poster galleries |
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"Atomic Bomb Collection Complete Library" DVD box set [2006] V.C.E. b&w/color DVD set [10/2006] 5 disks for $74.98 contains "Trinity and Beyond" [1995]; "Hollywood's Secret Studio: Atomic Filmmakers" [1997]; "Atomic Journeys" [1999]; "Nukes In Space" [1999]; and "Nuclear Rescue 911" [2001] |
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"Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination On Film" [2001] by Jerome F. Shapiro Routledge 9x5¼ pb [11/2001] for $29.95 Routledge library 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2001] for $106.00 |
Los Alamos, New Mexico
& The Manhattan Project
{official} Interactive History of the Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project info at National Atomic Museum
Atomic Heritage Assn. {merging with M.P.H.P.A. below as-of early 2006}
Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Assn.
Manhattan Project entry at Wikipedia
G.E. Nordell's Travel Links for Los Alamos, NM area
Key Players
Hans Albrecht Bethe [1906-2005]: entry at Wikipedia •
1967 Nobel Prize
Norris Bradbury [1909-97]: entry at Wikipedia
Owen Chamberlain [1920-2006]:
entry at Wikipedia •
1959 Nobel Prize
Robert Furman [1913-2008]: entry at Wikipedia
Gen. Leslie R. Groves [1896-1970]: entry at Wikipedia
Ernest O. Lawrence [1901-58]: entry at Wikipedia •
1939 Nobel Prize
Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin: bio below
J. Robert Oppenheimer: see below
Emilio Segrè [1905-89]:
entry at Wikipedia •
1959 Nobel Prize
Edward Teller [1908-2003]: entry at Wikipedia
John Archibald Wheeler [1911-2008] worked at the Hanford site: entry at Wikipedia
atomic spy {to the Russians} Klaus Fuchs [1911-88]: entry at Wikipedia
atomic spies {to the Russians} Julius & Ethel Rosenberg: see below
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"The Manhattan Project: The Birth of The Atomic Bomb In The Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses & Historians" [2007] Edited by Cynthia C. Kelly, Introduction by Richard Rhodes Black Dog & Leventhal 9x6¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $16.47 "Remembering The Manhattan Project: Perspectives On The Making of The Atomic Bomb & Its Legacy" [2005] Edited by Cynthia C. Kelly World Scientific Publng 9x6 hardcover [4/2005] for $37.24 |
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"They Changed The World: People of The Manhattan Project" [2006] by by A.J. Melnick, Foreword by Gov. Bill Richardson Sunstone Press 8¾x6 pb [11/2006] for $17.90 |
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"The Green Glass Sea" [ages 9-12; 2006] by Ellen Klages Viking Juvenile 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $11.55 |
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"Rider of The Pale Horse: A Memoir of Los Alamos & Beyond" [2005] by McAllister Hull, with Amy Bianco, illustrations by John Hull Univ NM Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/2005] for $16.47 |
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"109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer & The Secret City of Los Alamos" [2005] by Jennet Conant S&S 8½x5½ pb [5/2006] for $10.78 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2005] for $16.98 Audioworks ABR audio CD [4/2005] for $18.87 Audioworks ABR audio [4/2005] for $17.16 |
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"Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove" [2004] by Peter Goodchild Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2004] for $19.77 Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover [4/2004] for $29.38 |
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"100 Suns" photo book [2003] by Michael Light Art-quality plates culled from official government photographs of nuclear tests from 1942 to 1962. Knopf 13¾x10¾ pb [10/2003] for $28.35 |
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"Gatekeeper To Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin - A Biography of A Great Lady of Santa Fe" [2003] by Nancy Cook Steeper Los Alamos Historical Society 9x6 pb [4/2003] for $15.00 |
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"Brotherhood of The Bomb: The Tangled Lives & Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence & Edward Teller" [2002] by Gregg Herken Owl Books pb [9/2003] for $10.88 Henry Holt 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2002] out of print/used |
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"Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon & The Secret Palace of Science That Changed The Course of World War II" [2002] by Jennet Conant S&S 8½x5½ pb [5/2003] for $11.10 S&S 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2002] out of print/many used |
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"Racing For The Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, The Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man" [2002] by Robert S. Norris Steerforth 9¼x6¼ pb [3/2003] for $16.47 Steerforth 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] out of print/used |
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"Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey In Science & Politics" [2001] by Edward Teller, with Judith Shoolery Perseus Books 9¼x6 pb [10/2002] for $12.89 Perseus Books 9&fracx6½ hardcover [10/2001] out of print/used |
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"In the Shadow of The Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe & The Moral Responsibility of The Scientist" [2000] by Silvan S. Schweber Princeton Univ Press 9½x6½ pb [4/2000] for $34.15 |
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"Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory" [1997] by Jo Ann Shroyer Wiley 9½x6½ hardcover [10/97] for $24.95 |
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"Tales of Los Alamos: Life On The Mesa, 1943-1945" [1997] by Bernice Brode Alamos Historical Society 8¾x6 pb [10/97] out of print/used |
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"Dark Sun: The Making of The Hydrogen Bomb" [1995] by Richard Rhodes S&S 9¼x6 pb [8/96] for $12.24 S&S 9½x6¾ hardcover [8/95] out of print/many used |
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"The Manhattan Project: A Secret Wartime Mission" [1994] by Kenneth M. Deitch Discovery Enterprises 7¾x5¼ pb [9/94] for $7.95 Tandem Library hardcover [10/2001] for $15.75 |
 | "Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During The Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945" [1993] by Lillian Hoddeson, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade & Catherine L. Westfall Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2004] for $53.95 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 hardcover [5/93] for $160.00 |
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"The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures On How To Build An Atomic Bomb" [1992] by Robert Serber, edited by Richard Rhodes Once-classified lectures, with annotations for the nonspecialist reader and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rhodes Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [3/92] for $31.96 |
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"The Road From Los Alamos" [1991] by Hans A. Bethe [1906-2005] A.I.P. Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/91] for $39.95 S&S/Touchstone 9x6 pb [4/91] out of print/used |
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"Project Alberta: The Preparation of Atomic Bombs For Use In World War II" [1990] by Harlow W. Russ Exceptional Books 11x8½ pb [8/90] out of print/rare |
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"The Making of The Atomic Bomb" [1987] by Richard Rhodes (winner of the Pulitzer Prize} S&S 9¼x6 pb [8/95] for $13.60 Touchstone 9¼x6¼ pb [2/88] out of print/many used S&S 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/87] out of print/used |
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"Los Alamos: Beginning of An Era, 1943-1945" [1986] by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Public Relations Los Alamos Historical Society 10¾x8¼pb [4/86] for $5.95 |
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"Day One: Before Hiroshima & After" [1985] by Peter Wyden
The Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard Warner pb [8/85] out of print/used S&S hardcover [8/85] out of print/many used "Day One" tv movie [Spelling/CBS March 1989] Directed by Joseph Sargent; based on the book {below}; starring Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker, Hume Cronyn, Hal Holbrook, Barnard Hughes & Richard Dysart; won Emmy for Best Drama Special Acorn Media color DVD [11/2007] for $22.49 full credits at IMDb |
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"The Day After Trinity" [1981 documentary film]
Produced & co-written by Janet Peoples, co-written & directed by Jon Else; nominated for Best Documentary Oscar, won A.C.E. & Peabody Awards Image Ent. color DVD [5/2002] for $21.99 Pyramid Home Video color VHS [8/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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"Hans Bethe: Prophet of Energy" [1980] by Jeremy Bernstein Basic Books pb [1/80] out of print/used |
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"Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of The Atomic Scientists" [1970] by Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh Harvest Books 8x5½ pb [10/70] for $11.20 Sagebrush 8¼x5½ hardcover [10/99] for $22.25 |
"An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence" [1968]
by Herbert Childs
Dutton hardcover [8/68] out of print/used
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"Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of The Making of The Atomic Bomb" [1967] by Stephane Groueff Backinprint/iUniverse 9x6 pb [4/2000] for $28.95 Little, Brown hardcover [6/67] out of print/used |
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"Now It Can Be Told: The Story of The Manhattan Project" [Harper 1962] by Gen. Leslie R. Groves [1896-1970] Da Capo Press 8¾x5¾ pb [3/83] for $13.60 |
J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67]
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer studied at Harvard, Cambridge & Göttingen universities, then worked with Ernest O. Lawrence at U.C. Berkeley, together founding American theoretical physics. From 1943-45, Oppenheimer was scientific director of the top-secret Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. For twenty feverish months, the team at Los Alamos designed and produced the nuclear weapons that ended World War II, earning Oppen- heimer the nickname 'father of the atomic bomb'. His later outspoken opinions led to removal from government jobs and the loss of his security clearance in 1954, and to investigation by the House Unamerican Activities Committee (under Sen. Joseph McCarthy).
J. Robert Oppenheimer entry at Wikipedia
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"Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius" [2008] by Silvan S. Schweber Harvard Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2008] for $19.77 |
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"J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life" [2006] by Abraham Pais, with Robert P. Crease Oxford Univ Press hardcover [4/2006] for $18.90 |
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"The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer & The Birth of The Modern Arms Race" [2005] by Priscilla J. McMillan Penguin pb [3/2006] for $10.40 Viking 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2005] for $16.35 |
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"American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" [2005] by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/2006] for $11.67 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2005] for $23.10 |
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"J. Robert Oppenheimer and The American Century" [2004] by David C. Cassidy Pi Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [8/2004] for $18.45 |
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"Oppenheimer: Portrait of An Enigma" [2004] by Jeremy Bernstein Ivan R. Dee 8c5¼ pb [8/2005] for $10.17 Ivan R. Dee 8¾x5¾ hardcover [4/2004] for $16.50 |
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"Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967" [1999] by Robert F. Bacher Los Alamos Historical Society 9¼x6 pb [12/99] for $10.00 |
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"J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds" [1981] by Peter J. Goodchild Houghton Mifflin pb [5/81] out of print/used Fromm Intl 9½x7¼ pb [9/85] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin hardcover [5/85] out of print/used |
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"Robert Oppenheimer: Letters & Recollections" [1980] Edited by Alice Kimball Smith & Charles Weiner Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/95] for $17.13 Harvard Univ Press hardcover [5/80] for $39.49 |
"Oppenheimer: Illustrated" [1969]
Essays by I.I. Rabi, Robert Serber, Victor F. Weisskopf, Abraham Pais & Glenn T. Seaborg
Scribner 9½x6 hardcover [1/69] out of print/used
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
| In 1950, Sgt. David Greenglass, a former machinist at Los Alamos, confessed to having passed secret information to Russian agents. Though he initially denied any involvement by his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, he claimed that her husband, Julius, had convinced his wife to recruit Greenglass while on a visit in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1944 and that Julius had also passed secrets. The trial of the Rosenbergs began on 6 March 1951; they were convicted on March 29th and were sentenced to death by Judge Irving Kaufman on April 5th. After many appeals (even the Pope got involved), the couple were executed at sundown on 19 June 1953 in the electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. The Rosenbergs' two sons, Robert & Michael, were adopted by songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife, and the boys assumed the Meeropol surname. |
Rosenbergs entry at Wikipedia
National Committee To Reopen The Rosenberg Case [est. 1951]
'The Trial of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg' at Famous Trials website
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"We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg" [1975] 'written by their children' Robert & Michael {Rosenberg} Meeropol Ballantine Books mass pb [4/76] out of print/used Univ IL Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/86] out of print/used Houghton Miffin 9x6¼ hardcover [5/75] out of print/many used |
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"The Rosenberg File: A Search For The Truth" [1983] by Ronald Radosh & Joyce Milton Yale Univ Press 8¼x5½ 2nd edition pb [2/97] for $29.00 RH/Vintage pb [9/84] out of print/used Henry Holt hardcover [9/83] out of print/many used |
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"The Rosenberg Letters: A Complete Edition of The Prison Correspondence of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg" [1994] Edited by Michael Meeropol Routledge 8½x5¾ library hardcover [3/94] for $50.00 |
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"The Man Behind The Rosenbergs" [2001] by Alexander Feklisov (and Sergei Kostin) Enigma Books 9x6 pb [9/2003] for $12.24 Enigma Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2001] for $26.60 |
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"The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass & How He Sent His Sister Ethel Rosenberg To The Electric Chair" [2001] by Sam Roberts Random House 8x5 pb [5/2003] for $11.53 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2001] out of print/many used |
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"An Execution In The Family: One Son's Journey" [2003] by Robert {Rosenberg} Meeropol St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [6/2004] for $15.95 St. Martin's Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Heir To An Execution: A Granddaughter's Story" documentary film [festival circuit 2004] Co-produced & directed by {Michael's daughter} Ivy Meeropol; interviewees include Ivy, Michael & Robert Meeropol, with archive footage of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg H.B.O. Home Video widescreen color DVD [9/2004] for $21.99 full credits from IMDb H.B.O. official movie site |
Trinity Test Site
at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
The first atomic explosion in history occurred 16 July 1945;
the location is now within White Sands Missile Range [est. 1942] in New Mexico.
Trinity Test Site official website
Atomic Tourist page about the Trinity Test Site
'Trinity Remembered' website
Trinity 50th Anniversary pages at Albuquerque Journal
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"The Day The Sun Rose Twice: The Story of The Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945" [1984] by Ferenc Morton Szasz Univ NM Press 9x6 pb [7/95] for $12.89 Univ NM Press hardcover [12/84] out of print/used |
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"O Shepherd, Speak!" [Viking 1949] by Upton Sinclair
The tenth book in Sinclair's "World's End (Lanny Budd)" series of historical novels, covering 1944-45. The adventures of President Roosevelt's special agent Lanny Budd include the Battle of The Bulge, the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt's death, the A-bomb test at Trinity, and the Nuremberg Trials. Viking hardcover [1949] out of print/used "O Shepherd, Speak! - Part I" Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95 "O Shepherd, Speak! - Part II" Simon Publns 9x6 pb [7/2001] for $29.95 |
Ending the War with Japan
The fire-bombing of Tokyo, Japan in March 1945 caused more deaths than the atom bomb in Hiroshima.
Within months, Japan's economy was collapsing and the country faced catastrophic starvation.
Germany surrendered unconditionally on 7 May 1945.
The U.S. dropped a 20 kiloton atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th (killing an estimated 140,000 people)
and a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th (killing an estimated 74,000 people).
Japan announced unconditional surrender on August 14th,
and formally surrendered aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2nd.
browse 'History / World War II / Hiroshima & Nagasaki'
category books at Amazon.com
August 6-9: No Nukes * No Wars * No Profiteers
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"White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima & Nagasaki" [H.B.O. TV movie Aug 2007]
Written & directed by Steven Okazaki H.B.O. Home Video color DVD [8/2007] for $22.99 official sites: U.S.A. + Japanese |
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"Shockwave: Countdown To Hiroshima" [2005] by Stephen Walker Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/2006] for $9.72 HarperCollins 9x6½ hardcover [8/2005] for $17.79 |
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"The Enola Gay and The Smithsonian Institution" [2005] by Charles T. O'Reilly & William A. Rooney McFarland & Co. 9x6½ pb [1/2005] for $39.95 |
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"Harry S. Truman and The Bomb: A Documentary History" [1996] Edited by Robert H. Ferrell High Plains Publng 9½x6¼ pb [7/96] out of print/used |
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"Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima & Nagasaki" [1995] by Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon & J. Michael Wenger Brassey's/Potomac Books 11x8½ pb [11/99] for $13.57 Brassey's/Potomac Books hardcover [7/95] for $33.94 |
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"Judgment At The Smithsonian: The Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki" [1995] Edited by Philip Nobile Marlowe & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [8/95] out of print/used |
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"The Day Man Lost: Hiroshima, 6 August 1945" [1972] by Pacific War Research Society Kodansha America 7¼x4½ pb [8/81] out of print/used Kodansha America hardcover [12/97] out of print/used |
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"The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" [1946] from The Manhattan Engineer District official report from the Manhattan Project, dated 29 June 1946 BookSurge Classics pb [2/2004] for $7.99 Kessinger 11x8¼ pb [6/2004] for $10.85 IndyPublish 8¾x6½ pb [12/2001] for $17.99 IndyPublish 8¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2001] for $22.99 |
"Japan's Longest Day"
[Toho Japan Aug 1967, USA March 1968]
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This is the true story of 15 August 1945, as Japan's government considered surrender to the Allies; the 2-hour 40-minute film is broadcast in Japan every year on the anniversary of the surrender.
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan's Army Minister Anami proposed to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito and his other ministers considered the unthinkable – the peaceful surrender of Japan. When Anami learned of a military plot to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, he faced the choice between his desires and his loyalty to the Emperor. Directed by Kihachi Okamoto; adapted by Shinobu Hashimoto from the 1965 book; starring Toshirô Mifune, Koshiro Matsumoto {as Emperor Hirohito}, Sô Yamamura, Chishu Ryu, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshio Kurosawa, Shogo Shimada, Susumu Fujita, Rokko Toura, Yûnosuke Itô, Daisuke Katô, Etsushi Takahashi, Jun Tazaki, Takao Inoue & Nobuo Nakamura; won Kinema Junpo Award for Best Script Animeigo widescreen b&w/color DVD [9/2006] for $26.99 full credits from IMDb |
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based on the renowned history “Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi” [1965] by The Pacific War Research Society & Soichi Oya Kodansha Intl. 7½x5¼ pb [9/2002] for $13.57 Ballantine Books mass pb [9/93] out of print/used |
Hiroshima, Japan - 6 August 1945
Hiroshima page at Free Information Society
Pres. Truman's announcement of the Hiroshima atomic bomb {25 sec. soundbite}
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"Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen' [1973] classic manga novels by Keiji Nakazawa first serialized in 1972-73 in the 'Shukan Shonen Jampu' comic weekly The tale of a child surviving the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945; the manga books are important anti-war works, and the film is a landmark in animé art. Volume 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima Last Gasp 8¼x6 pb [10/2004] for $14.95 Volume 2: The Day After Last Gasp 8¼x6 pb [10/2004] for $14.95 Volume 3: Life After the Bomb Last Gasp pb [5/2005] for $10.17 Volume 4: Out of the Ashes Last Gasp pb [5/2005] for $10.17 |
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"Barefoot Gen" aka 'Hadashi no gen' [1983]
Directed by Mori Masaki; written & produced by Keiji Nakazawa Image Ent. bilingual color DVD [4/99] out of stock/used Orion Home Video color VHS [7/95] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb "Barefoot Gen 2" aka 'Hadashi no gen 2' [1986] Co-directed by Toshio Hirata & Akio Sakai; written by Keiji Nakazawa video not available; full credits from IMDb |
Nagasaki, Japan - 9 August 1945
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"First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches On Post-Atomic Japan & Its Prisoners of War" [2006] by George Weller, edited by Anthony Weller Three Rivers Press 8x5¼ pb [12/2007] for $10.17 Crown 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2006] for $16.50 |
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"The Last Bomb: A Marine Remembers Nagasaki" [2001] by David C. Milam {with his photos} Eakin Press 10x7 pb [1/2002] for $15.95 Eakin Press hardcover[11/2001] for $21.94 |
Pacific Island Atomic Testing Programs
Eniwetok Island entry at Wikipedia
Bikini Atoll entry at Wikipedia
Operation Crossroads: 2 detonations in July 1946
Operation Ivy: 2 detonations in November 1952
Operation Castle: 7 detonations March-April 1954
Operation Redwing: 17 detonations May-July 1956
Operation Hardtack I: 35 detonations April-August 1958
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"Radio Bikini: The Most Terrifying & Unbelievable Story of The Nuclear Age" [1987 documentary film]
U.S. Navy personnel are exposed to the radiation during a series of atomic tests in the Marshall islands, with devestating effects on their health. Produced, directed & edited by Robert Stone; nominated for Best Documentary Feature Oscar New Video Group b&w VHS [12/2003] for $23.70 full credits at IMDb |
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"The Bomb" [1995 YA novel] by Theodore Taylor
Vivid descriptions of Micronesian culture, thru the eyes of a native youth. Bikini Island is liberated from the Japanese Army in 1944, and then the islanders are forced to evacuate so that America can set off nuclear tests, and some of the natives revolt. HarperTrophy YA mass pb [8/97] for $5.99 Sagebrush 7x4¼ hardcover [10/99] for $14.15 Harcourt Children's 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/95] out of print/used |
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Conelrad [atomic civil defense]
Cold War Era Civil Defense Virtual Museum
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"Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain & The Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste" [2006] Edited by Allison M. Macfarlane & Rodney C. Ewing M.I.T. Press pb [5/2006] for $29.00 M.I.T. Press hardcover [5/2006] for $72.00 U.S. Senate testimony by Macfarlane on 1 March 2006 |
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"One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter In American Culture" [2001] by Kenneth D. Rose NY Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [4/2004] for $20.00 NY Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2001] for $43.66 |
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"Downwinders: An Atomic Tale" [2001 novel] by Curtis & Dianne Nelson Oberhansly Three Utahans discover classified documents about operations at the Nevada Test Site in the Fifties, and risk their lives to transport the incriminating information to victims of A-test fallout. Black Ledge Press 9¼x6 pb [4/2001] for $14.95 official booksite |
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"Civil Defense Begins At Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life In The Fifties" [2000] by Laura McEnaney Princeton Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2000] for $30.91 |
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"The Atomic Express" [1997] by Richard L. Miller Two-Sixty Press 9x6 pb [1/97] for $12.89 |
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"American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War" [1993] by Carole Gallagher Random House 10x10¼ pb [5/94] out of print/used M.I.T. Press 10½x10½ hardcover [3/93] for $56.11 |
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"Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy" [1989] by Philip L. Fradkin Johnson Books 8½x5½ pb [3/2004] for $11.90 Univ AZ Press pb [6/89] out of print/used Univ AZ Press hardcover [6/89] out of print/used |
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"Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era" [1988] by Elaine Tyler May Basic Books 9¼x6¼ pb [1/90] for $14.96 Basic Books hardcover [9/88] out of print/used |
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"Under The Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing" [1986] by Richard L. Miller Two-Sixty Press 9x6 pb [7/99] for $33.43 Free Press hardcover [9/86] out of print/used |
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"Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program In The 1950s" [1986] by Howard Ball Oxford Univ Press 8x5½ pb [4/88] out of print/used Oxford Univ Press 9¾x6½ hardcover [3/86] out of print/used |
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"By The Bomb's Early Light: American Thought & Culture At The Dawn of The Atomic Age" [1985] by Paul S. Boyer Univ NC Press 9¼x6¼ pb [9/94] for $21.95 Pantheon hardcover [10/85] out of print/used |
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"The Atomic Cafe" [1982]
Directed by Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty A collection of 1960s U.S. government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans about surviving nuclear war. New Video Group color DVD [3/2002] for $14.97 New Video Group color VHS [3/2002] for $18.95 full credits at IMDb |
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"When The Wind Blows" graphic novel [1982] by British illustrator Raymond Briggs Viking Childrens pb [2/88] for $11.78 Schocken hardcover [1/87] out of print/used Hamish Hamilton hardcover [3/82] out of print/used stage play adaptation: Samuel French pb [1/83] out of print/used B.B.C. radio drama: Soundelux audio [3/90] out of stock/used |
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"When The Wind Blows" animated film [T.V.C./Film Four Intl. U.K. 1986, USA March 1988] Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami Channel 4 color DVD [9/2005] out of prodn/used LionsGate Home Video color VHS [6/88] out of prodn/used Phantom soundtrack CD [11/96] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
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