The Bomb
August 6, 1945 Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 Nagasaki


355.8 HUG
The Manhattan Project: big science and the atom bomb
Jeff Hughes


327.12 ALB
Bombshell: the secret story of America's unknown atomic spy conspiracy
Joseph Albright


643.45119 KUN
City of Fire: Los Alamos and the birth of the atomic age 1943-1945
James W. Kunetka


539.7 HER
Brotherhood of the Bomb: the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
Gregg Herken

B OPP
American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird




The Decision to drop the Bomb -- documents


Los Alamos National Laboratory -- today's lab


Report of Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 -- effect on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (official government view)


Atomic Archive -- outline of atomic history

Truman Presidential Library