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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,523 ratings — published 1986
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.73 — 31,992 ratings — published 2013
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.31 — 59,264 ratings — published 2005
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,619 ratings — published 2005
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.29 — 7,626 ratings — published 2014
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.91 — 839 ratings — published 2007
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.17 — 492 ratings — published 1961
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.26 — 218,240 ratings — published 1985
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.06 — 217 ratings — published 1992
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.24 — 732 ratings — published 2015
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,529 ratings — published 2012
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,048 ratings — published 2012
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,093 ratings — published 2011
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.99 — 121 ratings — published 2002
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,964 ratings — published 2006
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,847 ratings — published 2020
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,989 ratings — published 2020
The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I 1939-1946 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1962
The History and Science of the Manhattan Project (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.38 — 13 ratings — published 2013
The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.89 — 123 ratings — published 1984
Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.50 — 306 ratings — published 2001
The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos (Zia Books)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.12 — 520 ratings — published 1959
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.76 — 33 ratings — published 1999
The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 1990
Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.23 — 126 ratings — published 1967
Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.09 — 164 ratings — published 1965
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.29 — 640 ratings — published 1956
Day of Trinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.05 — 57 ratings — published 1960
Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.14 — 43 ratings — published 1995
The Hiroshima Men: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb and the Dawning of the Age of Mutually Assured Destruction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.32 — 146 ratings — published 2025
The Women of Arlington Hall (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.26 — 29,901 ratings — published 2025
The Women of Oak Ridge (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,941 ratings — published
The Atomic City: A Firsthand Account of a Son of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
Sisters in Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,140 ratings — published 2024
Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.93 — 54 ratings — published 2003
Edith Warner and Her Tea Room in the Shadow of Los Alamos (Wild West History)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published
Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.24 — 133 ratings — published
The Woman At Otowi Crossing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.99 — 189 ratings — published 1965
In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 2001
Wilhelm's Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.25 — 73 ratings — published
La Bombe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,176 ratings — published 2020
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.57 — 621 ratings — published 2002
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.23 — 66 ratings — published 1987
Atomic Quest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published 1956
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World—A Fast-Paced Chronicle of Truman’s Tumultuous First Days Amidst World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.55 — 12,528 ratings — published 2017
Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 1965
German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 1989
বিশ্বাসঘাতক (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,508 ratings — published 1974
The Physics of the Manhattan Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 2010
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.30 — 904 ratings — published 2016
“It turned out that between 1945 and 1947, 18 people were injected with plutonium, specifically: 11 at Rochester, New York, 3 at the University of Chicago, 3 at UC San Francisco, and 1, Ebb Cade, at Oak Ridge. Several thousand human radiation experiments were conducted between 1944 and 1974. In 1994, President Clinton appointed the Advisory Committee of Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) to investigate these and other experiments funded by the United States government. Their final report was published in 1996.”
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“The worst lie ever told is that it is easier to destroy than to create. This lie makes people apathetic about a number of imminently avoidable horrors, particularly the nuclear ones. But Oppenheimer didn’t just go outside one day and trip over an atomic bomb. Nuclear development required trillions of dollars and a massive sustained effort by America’s top politicians, military advisors, and scientific geniuses. Not one damn bit of it was easy. It was certainly harder that sitting down with Stalin or Khrushchev and having a talk . . .
America had options. The path of destruction was a choice. It has always been America’s choice, and we citizens have always shrugged, assuming it’s too late to turn back the doomsday clock, although we’re the ones who wound it in the first place.”
― Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
America had options. The path of destruction was a choice. It has always been America’s choice, and we citizens have always shrugged, assuming it’s too late to turn back the doomsday clock, although we’re the ones who wound it in the first place.”
― Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and Religion
