Original Documents:
Michael B. Stoff (ed.), The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age.
1939 Letters by Einstein, Sachs, Roosevelt, Szilard, Fermi and Watson.
Comprehensive Histories:
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, esp. Chap 10 and earlier relevant threads, and indexed entries.
Children of the Manhattan Project --heritage website (although much relates to the later history) -- index to history section
Trinity Atomic Web Site: Nuclear Weapons: History, Technology, and Consequences in Historic Documents, Photos, and Videos -- and mirror site
Lawrence Badash, Scientists and the Development of Atomic Weapons [although primary focus is later].
Background on Nuclear Physics
High-Energy Weapons Archive and mirror site
Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon, CD-ROM.
Background on Weapons
Green, Constance McLaughlin, Harry C. Thomson, and Peter C. Roots. 1955/1970/1990. The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War.
Mark Skinner Watson. 1950. Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations
Jones, Vincent. 1985. Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. (Washington DC: U.S. Army Center for Military History)
Biographies:
Segrč, Emilio. Enrico Fermi: physicist. (University of Chicago Press, 1970)
"Richard Roberts." Biographical Memoirs Vol. 62 (National Academy of Science).
Lanouette, William. Genius in the shadows : a biography of Leo Szilard: the man behind the bomb
Teller, Edward. Memoirs : a twentieth-century journey in science and politics
Goodchild, Peter. 2004. Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove.
Harvard University Press.
Blumberg , Stanley and Gwinn Owens. Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller G.P. Putnam's Sons (1976).
Blumberg, Stanley A. Edward Teller: giant of the golden age of physics
Merle A. Tuve and his program of nuclear studies at the department of terrestrial magnetism : the early career of a modern American physicist, Cornell, Thomas D., 1987
Wigner, Eugene. The recollections of Eugene P. Wigner as told to Andrew Szanton
Wagner, Francis S. Eugene P. Wigner, an architect of the Atomic Age : highlights of a career with a comprehensive bibliography
Simulation assembled by Douglas Allchin, with kind assistance from Robert Seidel. || last revised Nov. 2, 2005
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