Traveler's Guide To Nuclear Weapons

This bibliography is by no means a complete record of all the works and sources we have consulted. We intend it to serve as a convenience and general reference for those who wish to pursue a more detailed historical or technical study of the nuclear weapons complex.

Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

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Albright, Joseph, and Kunstel, Marcia. Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. New York: Times Books, 1997.

Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Alvarez, Luis W. Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist. New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1987.

Badash, Lawrence. Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1939-1963. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1995.

Bainbridge, K.T. Trinity. Los Alamos: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1976.

Ball, Howard. Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bartimus, Tad, and McCartney, Scott. Trinity's Children: Living Along America's Nuclear Highway. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991.

Bebbington, W.P. History of du Pont at the Savannah River Plant. Wilmington, DE: E.I du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1990.

Bickel, Lennard. The Deadly Element: The Story of Uranium. New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1979.

Blow, Michael. The History of the Atomic Bomb. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1968.

Bolt, Bruce A. Nuclear Explosions and Earthquakes: The Parted Veil. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1976.

Bono, Sam. The National Atomic Museum: America's Museum Resource for Nuclear Science & History. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2002.

Boudy, Ray H., and Amos, J. Lawrence. A History of the Dow Chemical Physics Lab: The Freedom to Be Creative. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1990.

Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Boyer, Paul. Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.

Bradford, John R., ed. Radioisotopes in Industry. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1953.

Bradley, Davis. No Place To Hide. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.

Bradley, John, ed. Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.

Broad, William J. Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Brown, Anthony Cave, and MacDonald, Charles B., eds. The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb. New York: A Delta Book, 1977.

Bunn, Matthew, et al. Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Seven Steps for Immediate Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2002.

Chenoweth, William L. "Raw Materials Activities of the Manhattan Project on the Colorado Plateau," Nonrenewable Resources, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 33. Kingston, ON: International Association for Mathematical Geology, 1997.

Childs, Herbert. An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Father of the Cyclotron. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1968.

Christman, Al. Target Hiroshima: Deke Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

Clegg, John W., and Foley, Dennis D., eds. Uranium Ore Processing. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1958.

Cochran, Thomas B., et al. Nuclear Weapons Databook. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1987.

Coffinberry, A.S., and Miner, W.N., eds. The Metal Plutonium. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Coolidge, Matthew. The Nevada Test Site: A Guide to America's Nuclear Proving Ground. Culver City, CA: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, 1996.

Cuthbert, F.L. Thorium Production Technology. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1958.

D'Antonio, Michael. Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993.

Davis, Nuel Pharr. Lawrence & Oppenheimer. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

Day, Jr., Samuel H. Nuclear Heartland: A Guide to the 1,000 Missile Silos of the United States. Madison, WI: The Progressive Foundation, Inc., 1988.

Dean, Gordon. Report on the Atom: What You Should Know About the Atomic Energy Program of the United States. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

Del Tredici, Robert. At Work in the Fields of the Bomb. London: Harrap, Ltd., 1987.

Divine, Robert A. Eisenhower and the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Duncan, Francis. Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: The Discipline of Technology. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990.

Dyson, Freeman. Weapons and Hope. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1984.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Plant History, Project - 9734, Morgantown, West Virginia. Wilmington, DE: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1944.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Design and Procurement History of Chambers Works Special Projects. Wilmington, DE: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1946.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. du Pont: The Autobiography of an American Enterprise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

Else, Jon. The Day After Trinity, J. Robert Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb. Chatsworth, CA: Image Entertainment, 1980.

Fehner, Terrence R., and Gosling, F.G. Origins of the Nevada Test Site. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Energy, 2000.

Fehner, Terrence R., and Hall, Jack M. Department of Energy: A Summary History. Oak Ridge: U.S. Department of Energy, 1994.

Fermi, Rachel, and Samra, Esther. Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995.

Fernald Environmental Restoration Management Corporation. 1995 Site Environmental Report. Fernald, OH: U.S. Department of Energy, 1996.

Fernlund, Kevin J., ed. The Cold War American West, 1945-1989. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Ford, Daniel. The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1982.

Freedman, Lawrence. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy. Studies in International Security, #20. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

Fuller, John G. The Day We Bombed Utah: America's Most Lethal Secret. New York: New American Library, 1984.

Gaddis, John Lewis. We Now Know: Rethinking the Cold War. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Gallagher, Carole. American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
Garrelick, Renee. M.I.T. Beginnings: The Legacy of Nuclear Metals. Concord, MA: Nuclear Metals, Inc., 1995.

Gerber, M.S. The Hanford Site: An Anthology of Early Histories. Richland, WA: U.S. Department of Energy, 1993.

Gerber, M.S. Legend and Legacy: Fifty Years of Defense Production at the Hanford Site. Richland, WA: Westinghouse Hanford Corporation, 1995.

Gerber, M.S. History and Stabilization of the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) Complex, Hanford Site. Richland, WA: U.S. Department of Energy, 1997.

Gerstell, Richard. How to Survive an Atomic Bomb. Washington, D.C.: Combat Forces Press, 1950.

Gibson, James N. Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1996.

Girdler Corporation. Dana Plant Engineering and Design History. Wilmington, DE: E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, 1952.

Goldschmidt, Bertrand. The Atomic Complex: A Worldwide Political History of Nuclear Energy. La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society, 1982.

Goldstein, Donald M., et al. Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1995.

Goodchild, Peter. J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds. New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1985.

Gosling, F.G. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb. Oak Ridge: U.S. Department of Energy, 1994.

Gray, L.W. From Separations to Reconstitution - A Short History of Plutonium in the U.S. and Russia. Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1999.

Grodzins, Morton, and Rabinowitch, Eugene, eds. The Atomic Age: Scientists in National and World Affairs. New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1963.

Groueff, Stephane. Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1967.

Groves, General Leslie R. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1962.

Gsponer, Andre, and Hurni, Jean-Pierre. Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons: The Physical Principles of Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial Confinement Fusion, and the Quest for Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons. Technical Report No. 1, Sixth Edition. Geneva: International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, 1999.

Gusterson, Hugh. Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Halloran, Bernard F., ed. Essays on Arms Control and National Security. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1986.

Hansen, Chuck, ed. The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945. Sunnyvale, CA: Chukelea Publications, 1995.

Heilbron, J.L., and Seidel, Robert W. Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Hershberg, James G. James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Hirschfelder, J.O., et al., eds. The Effects of Atomic Weapons. Washington, D.C.: The Combat Forces Press, 1950.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Hewlett, Richard G., and Anderson, Jr., Oscar E. The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I 1939-1946. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

Hewlett, Richard G., and Duncan, Francis. Atomic Shield: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume II 1947-1952. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

Hoddeson, Lillian, et al. Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Hogerton, John F., ed. Atoms For Peace: U.S.A. 1958. Cambridge, MA: Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1958.

Hogerton, John F. The Atomic Energy Deskbook. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963.

Hogerton, John F., and Grass, R.C., eds. Reactor Handbook: Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1955.

Holl, Jack M. Argonne National Laboratory, 1946-96. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Howes, Ruth H., and Herzenberg, Caroline L. Their Day in the Sun: Women in the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory: Comprehensive Facility and Land Use Plan. Idaho Falls: Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company, 1997.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing In, On, and Above the Earth. New York: The Apex Press, 1991.

Johnson, Charles W., and Jackson, Charles O. City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1942-1946. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.

Johnson, Leland. Sandia National Laboratories: A History of Exceptional Service in the National Interest. Albuquerque: Sandia National Laboratories, 1997.

Johnson, Leland, and Schaffer, Daniel. Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The First Fifty Years. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Jones, Vincent C. Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. United States Army in World War II Special Studies. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1985.

Kathren, Ronald L., et al., eds. The Plutonium Story: The Journals of Professor Glenn T. Seaborg 1939-1946. Columbus: Battelle Press, 1994.

Kaufmann, Albert R., ed. Nuclear Reactor Fuel Elements: Metallurgy and Fabrication. New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1962.

Knebel, Fletcher, and Bailey, II, Charles W. No High Ground. New York: Bantam Books, 1960.

Kramish, Arnold, and Zuckert, Eugene M. Atomic Energy for Your Business: Today's Key to Tomorrow's Profits. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1956.

Krauskopf, Konrad B. Radioactive Waste Disposal and Geology. Topics in the Earth Sciences, Volume 1. London: Chapman and Hall, 1988.

Kunetka, James W. City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Birth of the Atomic Age, 1943-1945. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978.

Lapp, R. E. Must We Hide? Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, Inc., 1949.

Laurence, William L. Dawn Over Zero: The Story of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

Lemert, Ann Arnold. First You Take a Pick and Shovel: The Story of the Mason Companies. Lexington, KY: The John Bradford Press, 1979.

Lifton, Robert Jay, and Mitchell, Greg. Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial. New York: Avon Books, 1995.

Loeb, Paul. Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complex. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1986.

Lonnquest, John C., and Winkler, David F. To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program. Champaign, IL: U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, 1996.

Makhijani, Arjun, et al., eds. Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.

Mallinckrodt Chemical Company. Mallinckrodt 125th Year Anniversary. Washington, D.C.: Produced for Mallinckrodt in St. Louis by The History Factory, 1992.

Marcosson, Isaac F. Anaconda. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957.

Marshall Libby, Leona. The Uranium People. New York: Crane, Russak & Company, Inc., 1979.

Mason, Katrina R. Children of Los Alamos: An Oral History of the Town Where the Atomic Age Began. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

McPhee, John. The Curve of Binding Energy. New York: The Noonday Press, 1992.

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Miller, David. The Cold War: A Military History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Miller, John Anderson. Men and Volts at War: The Story of General Electric in World War II. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947.

Miller, Richard L. The U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout, 1951-1962, Volume I: Total Fallout. Woodlands, TX: Legis Books, 2001.

Mojtabai, A.G. Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

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Nininger, Robert D. Minerals for Atomic Energy. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1954.

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