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Atomic Bomb

109 East Palace, Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos


by Jennet Conant

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

This lively history of Los Alamos tells the story of those thousands who came to a secret desert, where the world's leading physicists raced to invent the atomic bomb and bring World War II to an end. (SWU191, $16.99)

American Prometheus, The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer


by Kai Bird | Martin Sherwin

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 736 PAGES

A big, exhaustively researched biography of the all-too-short life of Robert J. Oppenheimer, many years in the making. The authors (a journalist and literature professor) re interested in the full arc of his life. (SCI99, $40.00)

Atomic Spaces, Living on the Manhattan Project


by Peter Bacon Hales

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 456 PAGES

How American culture grew out of the atomic age. (USW425, $29.00)

The Atomic West


by Bruce William Hevly | John M. Findlay

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 328 PAGES

A series of essays concerning the history and effect of nuclear testing in the American West. (USW291, $26.95)

Brighter than a Thousand Suns, A Personal History of Atomic Scientists


by Robert Jungk

  • HISTORY
  • 1970
  • PAPER

An early history of the Manhattan project. (HSC20, $21.95)

Brotherhood of the Bomb


by Greg Herken

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • HARD COVER
  • 464 PAGES

A study of the trio of physicists responsible for creating the atomic bomb. (USW424, $30.00)

By Bomb's Early Light, American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age


by Paul S. Boyer

  • HISTORY
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 440 PAGES

A cultural history of America in the 1940s and 50s in relationship to the atomic bomb. (HSC16, $31.95)

Copenhagen


by Michael Frayn

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES

The award winning play of ideas, history and the atomic bomb. (TTR18, $14.00)

Critical Assembly, A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945


by Lillian Hoddeson | Paul W. Henriksen | Roger A. Meade | Catherine L. Westfall

  • SCIENCE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 509 PAGES

An exploration of how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs. (HSC23, $69.00)

The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945


by Ferenc Morton Szasz

  • SCIENCE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 233 PAGES

A concise and vividly written history of the Manhattan Project, focusing on the Trinity Site. (HSC18, $21.95)

Hiroshima

Hiroshima


by John Hersey

  • HISTORY
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 152 PAGES

Never sensational, this 1946 classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Hersey puts a human face on the unthinkable. Hersey explores the tragedy through interviews with residents, scientists and politicians. (JPN20, $7.95)

The Last Cheater's Waltz, Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest


by Ellen Meloy

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

A naturalist's travels through the desert Southwest of her youth, reflecting on native peoples, landscape and ecology. Meloy explores Los Alamos, Trinity National Historic Landmark, and White Sands Missile Range -- including the impact of the laboratory and bomb testing on the environment. (USW292, $17.95)

The Los Alamos Primer, the First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb

The Los Alamos Primer, the First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb


by Robert Serber | Richard Rhodes

  • SCIENCE
  • 1992
  • HARD COVER
  • 98 PAGES

A collection of original lecture notes concering the construction of the atomic bomb. (HSC17, $45.00)

Los Alamos, A Novel


by Joseph Kanon

  • MYSTERY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 517 PAGES

A thriller set in Los Alamos in the 1940s. (USW293, $7.99)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The Making of the Atomic Bomb


by Richard Rhodes

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 886 PAGES

From the discovery of the nucleus to the making of atomic bomb, this Pulitzer Prize winning book tackles the people, discoveries and places of the Atomic Age in spellbinding detail. (USW231, $21.00)

Now It Can Be Told, The Story of the Manhattan Project


by Leslie R. Groves | Edward Teller

  • HISTORY
  • 1983
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

A history of the Manhattan Project as told by the military head of the project. (HSC21, $20.00)

Their Day in the Sun, Women of the Manhattan Project


by Caroline L. Herzenberg | Ruth H. Howes | Ellen C. Weaver

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • HARD COVER
  • 280 PAGES

An oral history of women in the Manhattan Project combining interviews, written record and photographs of the women. (USW290, $47.50)

The Twilight of the Bombs, Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons


by Richard Rhodes

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 366 PAGES

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rhodes assesses the history of nuclear weapons from the end of the Cold War to the present, including the threat of nuclear terrorism, the US policy on rogue regimes and the hope of a future without nuclear weapons. (WLD210, $27.95)

 

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