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The Manhattan Project, the Trinity Test, and Primary Characters

Bainbridge, Kenneth. Trinity. Los Alamos Publication (LA-6300-H)

Bird, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf, 2005. ISBN: 978-0375412028.

Brode, Bernice. Tales of Los Alamos: Life on the Mesa 1943-1945. Edited by Barbara G. Storms. Los Alamos Historical Society, 2006. ISBN: 978-0941232173

Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos. Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 978-0743250085

Cowan, George A. Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan. University of New Mexico Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0826348708

Elish, Dan. The Manhattan Project (Cornerstones of Freedom). Children’s Press, 2008.

Fermi, Laura. Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780226243672

Groueff, Stephane. Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. iUniverse, 2000. ISBN: 978-0595092383

Groves, General Leslie R. Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series). Da Capo Press, 1983. ISBN-13: 978-0306801891

Hacker, Barton C. The Dragon’s Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942-1946. University of California Press, 1987. ISBN-13: 978-0520058521

Hoddeson, Lillian, Paul W. Henriksen, Roger A. Meade and Catherine L. Westfall. Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 

Howes, Ruth H. and Caroline C. Herzenberg. Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN: 978-1592131921

Hunner, Jon. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0806138916

Jette, Eleanor. Inside Box 1663. Los Alamos Historical Society, 2008

Jones, Vincent. Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. Department of the Army, 1985.

Jungk, Robert. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists.Mariner Books, 1970. ISBN: 978-0156141505

Kelly, Cynthia C. (Editor). The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians. Introduction by Richard Rhodes. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-1579128081

Kelly, Cynthia. C. Oppenheimer and The Manhattan Project: Insights Into J Robert Oppenheimer, “Father Of The Atomic Bomb” (Manhattan Project). World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005. ISBN: 978-9812565990

Kunetka, James. City of Fire: Los Alamos and the Atomic Age, 1943-1945. University of New Mexico Press, 1978.

Lamont, Lansing. Day of Trinity. Easton Press, 1989.

Los Alamos 1943-1945: The Beginning of an Era. Los Alamos publication (LASL-79-78)

The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb. U.S. Department of Energy, with Prefaces by the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Office of the Executive Secretariat and the Office of History and Heritage Resources. CreateSpace, 2010. ISBN: 978-1463738877

Norris, Robert S. Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man. Steerforth, 2003. 978-1586420673

Preston, Diana. Before the Fall-Out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima. New York: Walker & Company, 2006.

Radiological Survey and Evaluation of the Fallout Area from the Trinity Test: Chupadera Mesa and White Sands Missile Range, NM. Los Alamos Publication (LA-10256-MS)

Reed, B. Cameron. The Physics of the Manhattan Project. Springer, 2nd edition, 2010. ISBN: 978-3642147081 

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1995.  ISBN-13: 978-0684813783

Serber, Robert. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb. With an Introduction by Richard Rhodes. University of California Press, 1992. ISBN-13: 978-0520075764

Sparks, Ralph. C. Twilight Time: A Soldier’s Role in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Los Alamos Historical Society, 2000. ISBN: 978-0941232258

Steeper, Nancy Cook. Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Doroty Scarritt McKibbin.Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Historical Society, 2005.

Szasz, Ferenc Morton. The Day the Sun Rose Twice. University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Trinity Site: July 16, 1945. (Brochure)

Wilson, Jane S. and Charlotte Serber. Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos. Los Alamos Historical Society, 2008. ISBN: 978-0941232081

Wyden, Peter. Day One. Simon and Schuster, 1986.

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