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Sime, Ruth Lewin. Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Chapter Nineteen: TRINITY
On the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, there has been quite a lot of adult historical material written. Please refer to the following texts, as they have been the most helpful:
Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Fermi, Laura. “The Fermis’ Path to Los Alamos.” In Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945. Edited by Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and Herbert P. Broida. Studies in the History of Modern Science. Dordrecht, Netherlands, and Boston: D. Reidel, 1980.
Gibson, Toni Michnovicz, and Jon Michnovicz. Los Alamos: 1944–1947. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
Groves, Leslie R. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Harper, 1962.
Hunner, Jon. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Lamont, Lansing. Day of Trinity. New York: Scribner, 1965.
Szasz, Ferenc Morton. The Day the Sun Rose Twice. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.
Wilson, Jane, ed. All in Our Time: The Reminiscences of Twelve Nuclear Pioneers. Chicago: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1975.
Chapter Twenty: THE END AND THE BEGINNING
Numerous works for an adult audience have been published on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and how it came to be. For additional information, refer to the following:
Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.
Compton, Arthur Holly. Atomic Quest. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Einstein, Albert. Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.
Gosling, F. G. The Manhattan Project: Science in the Second World War. Energy History Series. Washington, DC: US Department of Energy, 1990.
Groueff, Stephane. Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Atomic Bomb. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
Groves, Leslie R. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Harper, 1962.
Libby, Leona Marshall. The Uranium People. New York: Crane, Russak, 1979.
Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Rona, Elizabeth. How It Came About: Radioactivity, Nuclear Physics, Atomic Energy. Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 1978.
Taton, René, ed. History of Science: Science in the Twentieth Century. Translated by A. J. Pomerans. New York: Basic Books, 1964.
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ASSOCIATIONS, ARCHIVES, AND LIBRARIES
American Museum of Science and Energy, Oak Ridge, TN
Atomic Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC
B Reactor Museum Association, Richland, WA
Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM
Department of Energy: The Manhattan Project
L’association Curie et Joliot-Curie, Paris
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Alamos Historical Society, Los Alamos, NM
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, NM
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC
Wellcome Library, London