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"The Los Alamos Primer" [1943] by physicist Robert Serber
The document was initiated by Robert Oppenheimer asking his protégé physicist Robert Serber to summarize all knowledge and possible solutions known as of April 1943
in a series of lectures; Serber did such an excellent job that notes by Edward Condon from the 5-lecture series were turned into "The Los Alamos Primer" booklet, given to
new scientific staff at Los Alamos, to catch them up on the work of building a practical fission bomb.
book entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures On How To Build An Atomic Bomb" [1943] by Robert Serber; Introduction by Ross Bolton Unabridged declassified reproduction in full color with all censor markings 32-page Chump Change 11x8½ pb [4/1943 facsimile] for $7.98 32-page Chump Change 11x8½ hardcover [4/1943 facsimile] for $13.98 | |
 | "The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures On How To Build An Atomic Bomb" [rev. 1992] by Robert Serber, Edited & Introduction by Richard Rhodes Once-classified lectures, with annotations for the nonspecialist reader and an Introduction by Pulitzer-winning historian Rhodes Univ California Press 8¼x5½ pb [4/2020] for $12.89 Univ California Press 9¼x6 hardcover [3/92] for $40.97 |
"The Smyth Report" [August 1945] by Henry DeWolf Smyth [1898-1986]
Major General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, commissioned physicist Smyth to write the official un-classified administrative history of the development of the atomic bombs and the basic physical processes behind them. The report was released to the public on 12 August 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
book entry at Wikipedia
 | "Atomic Energy For Military Purposes: A General Account of The Scientific Research and Technical Development That Went Into The Making of Atomic Bombs" [1945] by Henry D. Smyth Official un-classified administrative history about the Manhattan Project, released to the public on 12 August 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kindle Edition from atomic archive [6/2015] for $1.99 {sic} Stanford Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [1990] for $27.36 American Physical Society 7¾x5¼ hardcover [8/1945] out of print/used |
 | "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 | |
 | "One World or None: A Report To The Public On The Full Meaning of The Atomic Bomb" [1946 New York Times bestseller] Edited by Dexter Masters & Katherine Way Original edition includes Foreword by Niels Bohr, Introduction by Arthur H. Compton, articles & essays by Gen. H.H. 'Hap' Arnold, Hans Bethe, E.U. Condon, Albert Einstein, Irving Langmuir, Walter Lippmann, Philip Morrison, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Louis N. Ridenour, Frederick Seitz, Harlow Shapley, Leo Szilard, Harold C. Urey, Eugene P. Wigner, and Gale Young; recent editions include a New Preface by Richard Rhodes McGraw-Hill Book Co. pb [1946] out of print/used The New Press 7½x5½ hardcover [9/2007] for $20.27 The New Press 7½x5½ hardcover [9/2007] out of print/used | |
 | "Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of The Making of The Atomic Bomb" [1967] by Stephane Groueff [1922-2006] iUniverse/Backinprint 9x6 pb [6/2000] for $28.95 Bantam Books mass pb [1968] out of print/used Little Brown & Co. hardcover [6/67] out of print/used transcript of Groueff's 1965 interview of J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67] | |
 | "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 Soldiers: American Victims of Nuclear Experiments" [1979] by Howard L. Rosenberg, Introduction by Jack Anderson (the TV deal on the movie tie-in 1980 bookcover did not get made) Beacon Press 7½x5 pb [6/81] out of print/used Beacon Press pb [5/80] out of print/used Beacon Press pb [12/79] out of print/used | |
 | "G.I. Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Dangers More Deadly Than War - Agent Orange and Atomic Radiation" [1980] by Michael Uhl & Tod Ensign Putnam Publng Group 8x5½ pb [11/80] out of print/used Playboy Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [11/80] out of print/used Playboy Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [11/80] out of print/used | |
 | "Nuclear Power: Both Sides - The Best Arguments For and Against The Most Contro-versial Technology" [1982] Edited by Michio Kaku & Jennifer Trainer contributors include Hans A. Bethe, Ralph Nader W.W. Norton & Co. 9x6 pb [9/83] for $23.15 W.W. Norton & Co. hardcover [1982] out of print/many used | |
 | "Countdown Zero: G.I. Victims of Atomic Testing" [1982] by Thomas H. Saffer & Orville E. Kelly, Introduction by Stewart L. Udall Penguin Books 7x5 pb [7/83] out of print/used Penguin Adult 8¾x5½ pb [5/82] out of print/used | |
 | "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, California Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/91] for $25.95 S&S 9¼x6 hardcover [1/83] out of print/used | |
 | "The Deadly Connection: Nuclear War & US Intervention" [1983] from American Friends Service Committee {Quakers} Transcripts from the conference initiated by the A.F.S.C. New England Regional Office, held at M.I.T. December 4 & 5, 1982; includes articles and speeches by Norman Becker, Phil Berryman, Kassahun Checole, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Randall Forsberg, Jack O'Dell, Charles Planas New Society Publrs 8¼x5¾ pb [10/85] out of print/used A.F.S.C. 9x6 pb [1983] out of print/used A.F.S.C. pb [1983] out of print/scarce | |
 | "Talking To Children About Nuclear War" [1984] by William Van Ornum & Mary Wicker Van Ornum Wipf & Stock Publng 9x6 pb [4/2002] for $18.00 Continuum Intl. Publng 8¾x6 pb [4/84] out of print/used Continuum Intl. Publng 9½x6½ hardcover [4/84] out of print/used | |
 | "The Making of The Atomic Bomb" [1987] by Richard Rhodes book won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction - considered to be the definitive history of the Manhattan Project Kindle 25th Anniv Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [9/2012] for $14.99 S&S 25th Anniv 9x6 pb [7/2012] for $21.15 S&S 9¼x6 pb [8/95] for $16.03 Touchstone 9¼x6¼ pb [2/88] out of print/90+ used S&S 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/87] out of print/used | |
 | "To Win A Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans" [1987] by Michio Kaku & Daniel Axelrod, Foreword by Ramsey Clark South End Press 8½x5½ pb [7/99] out of print/used South End Press 8½x5½ pb [7/99] out of print/used Black Rose Books, Canada 8¾x5½ hardcover [10/87] for $48.99 | |
 | "The Struggle Against The Bomb, Volume One: One World or None - A History of The World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953" [1993] by Lawrence S. Wittner
Stanford Univ Press 12½x9¾ pb [1995] out of print/used Stanford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/93] for $80.75 | |
 | "The Struggle Against The Bomb, Volume 2: Resisting The Bomb - A History of The World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970" [1997] by Lawrence S. Wittner Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/97] out of print/used Stanford Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [12/97] out of print/used | |
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"The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments In The Cold War" [1999] by Eileen Welsome Details of the many lab accidents and horrible human experiments from the Manhattan Project and for many years later • Plutonium entry at Wikipedia Delta 9½x6¼ pb [10/2000] out of print/used The Dial Press 9¼x6 hardcover [9/99] out of print/used | |
 | "Breakdown: How The Secret of The Atomic Bomb Was Stolen" [1999] by Richard Melzer, PhD Sunstone Press 8½x5¼ pb [12/99] for $16.95 |
 | "Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and The Political Science of The Atomic Bomb" graphic novel [2001] Written by Jim Ottaviani, Illustrated by Janine Johnston, Jeffrey Jones, Steve Lieber, Vince Locke, Bernie Mireault & Jeff Parker Book focuses on the scientists themselves - in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard - whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy alliance between the military, the government, and the beginnings of 'big science' Kindle Edition from G.T. Labs [6/2016] for $12.99 G.T. Labs 10x7 pb [9/2013] for $24.95 | |
 | "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 | |
 | "Atomic Archive: History, Science, Consequences" CD-ROM [2002] by Chris Griffith A.J. Software & Multimedia CD-ROM [4/2002] for $19.77 official website | |
 | "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 | |
 | "Brotherhood of The Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller" [2002] by Smithsonian historian Gregg Herken behind-the-scenes account based on a decade of research, interviews, and newly-released Freedom of Information Act documents and Russian documents Kindle Edition from Henry Holt & Co. [9/2002] for $11.99 Holt Paperbacks 8½x5½ pb [9/2003] for $29.99 Henry Holt & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2002] out of print/used | |
 | "The Struggle Against the Bomb, Volume 2: Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of The World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present" [2003] by Lawrence S. Wittner Stanford Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/2003] for $35.10 Stanford Univ Press 9½x6 hardcover [8/2003] for $82.00 | |
 | "The Bomb: A Life" [2005] by Gerard J. DeGroot
Harvard Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2005] for $18.45 | |
 | "Living Through The Cold War: Living Under The Threat of Nuclear War" [YA 2005] by Derek C. Maus Greenhaven Press hardcover [3/2005] for $35.75 | |
 | "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 | |
 | "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 | |
 | "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 | |
 | "Arsenals of Folly: The Making of The Nuclear Arms Race" [2007] by Richard Rhodes Knopf 10x5¾ hardcover [10/2007] for $19.11 | |
 | "Hell's Fire: A Documentary History of The American Atomic Thermo-nuclear 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 | |
 | "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 | |
 | "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 | |
 | "Atomic Awakening: A New Look At The History and Future of Nuclear Power" [2009] by James Mahaffey Kindle Edition from Pegasus Books [10/2010] for $9.99 Pegasus Books 8½x5¾ pb [10/2010] for $18.95 Pegasus Books hardcover [6/2009] out of print/used Shanghai Science & Technology Publng House Chinese-language pb [2011] out of print/used | |
 | "The Bomb: A New History" [2009] by Stephen M. Younger
HarperCollins/Ecco 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2010] for $10/19 HarperCollins/Ecco 8x5½ hardcover [1/2009] for $17.81 | |
 | "The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face The Atomic Age" [2009] by Robert A. Jacobs Univ Massachusetts Press 9¼x6 pb [2/2010] for $22.50 Univ Massachusetts Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2009] out of print/used | |
 | "Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and The National Security State" [2010] by Garry Wills Wills's alarming account of the unprecedented growth of the executive branch's power is reviewed as both an "unfocused jeremiad" and as "a meticulously researched, readable, and well-timed treatise on the state of the U.S. government" – which probably qualifies the book as 'thought-provoking' at the very least Kindle Edition from Penguin Group USA [1/2011] for $12.99 Penguin Books 7¾x5 pb [1/2011] for $13.85 Penguin Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2010] out of print/100+ used | |
 | "A Spy's Guide To Santa Fe and Albuquerque" [2011] by former C.I.A. agent E.B. Held Reveals details of the plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, Ted Hall's delivery of atom bomb secrets to Russia's K.G.B., the case of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, and the allegations against Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee Kindle Edition from Univ NM Press [5/2011] for $9.99 Univ NM Press 8½x5½ pb [1/2011] for $15.64 | |
 | "Trinity: A Graphic History of The First Atomic Bomb" [2012] by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm powerful renderings that showcase J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Gen. Leslie Groves Kindle Edition from Hill & Wang [11/2023] for $9.99 
Hill & Wang 9x6 pb [5/2013] for $15.49 Hill & Wang 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2012] out of print/used | |
 | "Romancing The Atom: Nuclear Infatuation From The Radium Girls To Fukushima" [2012] by Robert Johnson Kindle Edition from Praeger [8/2012] for $50.35 {sic} Praeger 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2012] for $53.00 {sic} more details (history, movies, stageplays, books & ebooks, links) on | |
 | "Nuclear Iran: The Birth of An Atomic State" [2012] by David Patrikarakos Kindle Edition from I.B. Tauris [8/2012] for $14.29 I.B. Tauris 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/2012] for $24.61 | |
 | "The Nuclear Age In Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965" [2012] Edited by Dick van Lente Kindle Edition from Palgrave Macmillan [11/2012] for $72.00 {sic} Palgrave Macmillan 8¾x5½ hardcover [11/2012] for $81.38 {sic} | |
 | "The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of The Atomic Era" [2014] by Craig Nelson - author's official website The first complete history of the Atomic Age, from the discovery of X-rays in the 1890s to the continuing XXIst Century disaster at Fukushima Kindle Edition from Scribner/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [3/2014] for $14.99 Scribner 8¾x5¾ pb [12/2014] for $15.45 Scribner 9x6 hardcover [3/2014] for $29.99 | |
 | "Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and The Cultural Imagination" [2014] by Fabienne Collignon featuring references to and-or excerpts of Batman, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Ronald Reagan, Nikola Tesla, James Webb, and Tom Wolfe Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury Academic [7/2014] for $35.99 {sic} Bloomsbury Academic 9x6 pb [1/2016] for $39.95 Bloomsbury Academic 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2014] for $110.00 {sic} | |
 | "Nuclear Iran" [2014] by Jeremy Bernstein Kindle Edition from Harvard Univ Press [10/2014] for $9.99 Harvard Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2014] for $17.46 | |
 | "Downwind: A People's History of The Nuclear West, Illustrated" [2014] by Sarah Alisabeth Fox { author's official booksite } an unflinching report of the American atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War Kindle Edition from Bison Books [11/2014] for $11.99 Bison Books 9x6 pb [10/2018] for $15.83 Bison Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2014] for $29.95 |
 | "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women" [U.K. June 2016, USA April 2017] by Kate Moore { official website } Soon after the Curies discovered radium, industry made use of its seemingly-magical properties; clock- and watch-makers hired young women to paint radium onto the dials of their products for a glow-in-the-dark effect, telling their employees that there was no danger whatsoever. But by the 1920s and 1930s the young 'radium girls' became sick with cancer and other fatal ailments. Featuring the Westclox factory in Ottawa, Illinois - parts of the town are radioactive to this day. 73-page 'Extended Excerpt' Kindle Edition from Sourcebooks [3/2017] for FREE {sic} Kindle Edition from Sourcebooks [4/2017] for $7.49 Sourcebooks 9x6 pb [3/2018] for $14.39 Sourcebooks 9x6 hardcover [4/2017] for $18.35 |
 | "Almighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril In The Nuclear Age" [2016] by Dan Zak Kindle Edition from Blue Rider Press/Penguin Group [7/2016] for $13.99 Blue Rider Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [7/2016] for $17.70 | |
 | "Underground and Radioactive: Adventures of A Uranium Miner In 1970s New Mexico" [2017] by R.D. Saunders Kindle Edition from McFarland [5/2017] for $9.99 McFarland 9x6 pb [5/2017] for $29.95 | |
 | "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of A Nuclear War Planner" [2017] by Daniel Ellsberg [1931-2023] Ellsberg shows that the legacy of our dangerous arms buildup – and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration – threatens the very survival of civilization: if executed, it will cause the near-extinction of humanity. Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury USA [12/2017] for $9.20 Bloomsbury USA 8x5 pb [12/2017] out of print/used Bloomsbury USA 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2017] for $18.89 | |
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"A Technical History of America’s Nuclear Weapons: Their Design, Operation, Delivery, and Deployment" [2018] by Dr. Peter A. Goetz
1846-page self-publd Kindle Edition [9/2020] for $9.99 "Volume I: Introduction and Developments To 1960" [2018] 652-page self-publd 10x8 pb [9/2020] for $34.95 "Volume II: Developments From 1960 Through 2020" [2020] 643-page self-publd 10x8 pb [9/2020] for $34.95 |
http://www.amazon.com/First-Atomic-Age-Scientists-Radiations/dp/1137307218/
http://www.amazon.com/Plutonium-History-Worlds-Dangerous-Element/dp/0309102960/
http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Energy-Rock-Shaped-World-ebook/dp/B001RWQVOO/
Barry M. Blechman and Stephen S. Kaplan's "Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces As A Political Instrument" [1979]
 | "The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and The Making of The Atomic Age" [2020] by award-winning science writer Steve Olson In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built in the desert of eastern Washington State to produce weapon-strength deadly and enigmatic plutonium to fuel the atomic bombs dropped on Hiro-shima and Nagasaki, and for the bombs in the current American nuclear arsenal; author Olson, who grew up just twenty miles from Hanford’s B Reactor, asks why the facility is so often overlooked in histories of the Manhattan Project and of the Cold War; 32 illustrations Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [7/2020] for $9.99 W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [1/2022] for $15.51 W.W. Norton & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2020] for $17.48 | |
 | "Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and The Effects of The Nuclear Industrial  Complex On Nuevomexicanos" [2022] by Myrriah Gómez shows how the tradition of colonial affected events in Los Alamos during WWII and continue today Kindle Edition from Univ Arizona Press [11/2022] for $16.50 Univ Arizona Press 9x6 pb [11/2022] for $30.00 Univ Arizona Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2022] for $100.00 {sic} | |
 | "Road To Surrender: Three Men and The Countdown To The End of World War II" [2023] by Evan Thomas covers historic efforts to end the Pacific War by Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, who oversaw the Manhattan Project; U.S. Army Air Forces Gen. Carl 'Tooey' Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo Kindle Edition from Random House [5/2023] for $13.99 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2023] for $18.19 |
Atomic Fiction
list of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction & Films at Wikipedia
 | "The Accident: A Novel" [1955] by Dexter Masters In April 1946, Canadian physicist Louis A. Slotin was working in a laboratory at Los Alamos and accidentally triggered a burst of hard radiation; he died nine days later. Masters's novel describes the events around fictional Louis Saxl and a similar event. Penguin Books 7½x5 pb [8/85] out of print/used Faber & Faber 7¾x5 pb [1987] out of print/used Alfred A. Knopf 8x5¾ hardcover [1955] out of print/used |
 | "On The Beach" [1957 novel] by Nevil Shute
Set in a future 1964, the northern hemisphere is wiped out by nuclear war, the radiation will soon also poison the southern hemisphere. An American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia; the captain mourns his lost family and meets a local beauty barely a month before the predicted end of civilization. Ballantine Books mass pb [9/83] for $6.99 House of Stratus 8x5¼ pb [10/2002] for $10.36 Amereon House 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/86] for $26.95 book entry at Wikipedia made into a movie in 1959 starring Gregory Peck see further details on the Atomic Film Festival Page |
 | "Level 7: A Horrifying, Prophetic Document of The Future" [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 |
 | "Alas, Babylon" [1959 classic] by Pat Frank Still in print after 50 years, there are even SparkNotes Guides; deals with the effects of nuclear war on a small town in Florida HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $10.18 HarperPerennial 8x5½ pb [4/99] out of print/used Bantam Books mass pb [7/82] out of print/used Bantam Books hardcover [1981] out of print/used |
 | "Down To A Sunless Sea: A Novel" [1979] by David Graham With the end of oil, America becomes a third-world country; the pilot of a British airliner taking off from New York learns that Israel has nuked Egypt, Lebanon & Syria, setting off nuclear retaliation around the globe • book entry at Wikipedia S&S pb [6/2007] for $20.65 Fawcett mass pb [7/86] out of print/used Robert Hale, Ltd, hardcover [10/79] out of print/used |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" [2005 novel] by Lydia Millet A shy librarian in Santa Fe, New Mexico discovers that three atomic scientists watching the Trinity Test in 1945 – Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard & Enrico Fermi – have transported sixty years into the future, where they must re-examine their legacy. Harvest 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2006] for $10.20 Soft Skull Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2005] for $19.00 publisher bookpage • author website |
 | "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 |
 | "Shadow of The Bomb: A Snap Malek Mystery" [2006] by Robert Goldsborough Chicago newspaper reporter Snap Malek gets wind of an important and very secret project led by physicist Enrico Fermi underneath a football stadium on the University of Chicago campus; he attempts to arrange an exclusive story, but that is made difficult by several violent deaths . . . Kindle Edition from Echelon Press [3/2009] for $4.99 Echelon Press 8x5 pb [9/2006] out of print/used |
 | "The Road" [2006] by Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; a father & son journey toward the sea across the desolate landscape remaining after an unnamed cataclysm destroys civilization on Earth Vintage movie tie-in mass pb [11/2008] for $7.99 Vintage 8x5 pb [3/2007] for $10.17 Knopf 9¾x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $16.47 book entry at Wikipedia made into a 2009 feature film starring Viggo Mortensen & Guy Pearce see further details on the Atomic Film Festival Page |
 | "Critical Reaction: A Novel" [2013] by Todd M. Johnson Inspired by a real case; after surviving a thunderous explosion at the shuttered Hanford Nuclear Facility in Washington State, an employee asks for help from a friend who is an inexperienced lawyer; they then seek help from the young lawyer's estranged father, an experienced trial lawyer who has grown jaded and weary of his profession; the deeper he digs, the stranger - and more dangerous - the case becomes. • official site Kindle Edition from Bethany House [11/2013] for $9.99 Bethany House Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [11/2013] for $11.97 |
 | "Iron Lines" railroad novel [2015] by A.J. Russell
The government nuclear power plant at Echelon in Iceland suffers a devastating meltdown; a veteran of the Chernobyl disaster is appointed to clean up the mess, and there's only one way to cross the volcanic wilderness from Reykjavik: the Járnbraut Ferõast - the Voyager Railway LULU.com 8¼x6 pb [11/2015] for $12.08 |
 | "Murder On The San Juan Express: An Agent Nelson Paine Mystery" novella [2021] by K.C. Sivils of Texas German born physicist Johann Mueller immigrated to the United States in the 1930s to escape Hitler and the Nazis, and recently worked for the U.S. Department of War; when he dies under mysterious circumstances while traveling on Colorado’s famed narrow gauge San Juan Express, F.B.I. Special Agent Nelson Paine is assigned the sensitive task of uncovering the truth about Mueller’s death. Suspecting espionage, Paine continues Mueller’s journey, and soon discovers that things are not what they seem along the Denver & Rio Grande Western and the Rio Grande Southern railroads . . . (Of course, this is connected to the secret Manhattan Project.) Kindle Edition from self-publd [1/2021] for 99¢ {sic} self-publd 8½x5½ pb [3/2021] for $10.95 |
 | "Atomic Anna: A Novel" science fiction [2022] by Rachel Barenbaum Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past Kindle Edition from Grand Central Publng [4/2022] for $13.99 Grand Central Publng 10½x6½ hardcover [4/2022] for $25.99 |
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