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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,331 ratings — published 1986
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.73 — 32,633 ratings — published 2013
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,803 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 — 2,676 ratings — published 2005
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.19 — 547 ratings — published 1961
The Wives of Los Alamos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.30 — 7,769 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 3.92 — 845 ratings — published 2007
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.10 — 231 ratings — published 1992
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,522 ratings — published 1985
The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer—The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.24 — 770 ratings — published 2015
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,674 ratings — published 2012
The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I 1939-1946 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1962
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 — 21,708 ratings — published 2012
Feynman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,173 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 4.02 — 125 ratings — published 2002
The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,080 ratings — published 2006
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,278 ratings — published 2025
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.23 — 245 ratings — published 2025
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.31 — 949 ratings — published 2016
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 — 10,218 ratings — published 2020
The Atomic City Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.54 — 26,740 ratings — published 2018
Atomic Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,352 ratings — published 2020
The History and Science of the Manhattan Project (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.43 — 14 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 3.92 — 122 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 3.51 — 305 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 — 542 ratings — published 1959
The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.15 — 680 ratings — published 2006
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
City Behind A Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1946 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.57 — 135 ratings — published 1981
Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.23 — 131 ratings — published 1967
Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.09 — 176 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 4.31 — 662 ratings — published 1956
Day of Trinity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.07 — 59 ratings — published 1960
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.90 — 287 ratings — published 2002
Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.92 — 116 ratings — published 1997
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,985 ratings — published 2014
The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.85 — 140 ratings — published 2023
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.00 — 118 ratings — published 2009
Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.06 — 16 ratings — published 2012
A última mensagem de Hiroshima: O que vi e como sobrevivi à bomba atômica (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.37 — 121 ratings — published 2017
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 3.95 — 87 ratings — published 2001
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.16 — 196 ratings — published 2019
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,319 ratings — published 2020
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,876 ratings — published 1946
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 Women of Arlington Hall (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,633 ratings — published 2025
The Women of Oak Ridge (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as manhattan-project)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,305 ratings — published 2025
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 3.66 — 4,720 ratings — published 2024
“One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you’ve got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“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
