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==References== * {{cite journal |last=Bernstein |first=Barton J. |title=The Uneasy Alliance: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Atomic Bomb, 1940β1945 |publisher=University of Utah |date=June 1976 |journal=The Western Political Quarterly |pages=202β230 |volume= 29 |issue= 2 |jstor=448105|doi=10.2307/448105}} * {{cite book |last=Campbell |first= Richard H. |year=2005 |title=The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn= 0-7864-2139-8 |oclc=58554961}} * {{cite book |last=Conant |first=Jennet |author-link=Jennet Conant |title=109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |year=2005 |isbn=0-7432-5007-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/109eastpalacerob00cona }} * {{cite book|last=Farmelo|first=Graham|title=Churchill's bomb: How the United States overtook Britain in the first nuclear arms race|publisher=Basic Books|year=2013|isbn=0465021956}} * {{cite book |last1=Fine |first1=Lenore |last2=Remington |first2=Jesse A. |title=The Corps of Engineers: Construction in the United States |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |url=http://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-5/CMH_Pub_10-5.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927132809/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-5/CMH_Pub_10-5.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2012 |access-date=25 August 2013 |location=Washington, DC |year=1972 |oclc=834187 }} * {{cite journal |last=Frisch |first=David H. |title=Scientists and the Decision to Bomb Japan |journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |volume= 26 |issue= 6 |pages=107β115 |publisher=Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science|date=June 1970|doi=10.1080/00963402.1970.11457835 |issn=0096-3402}} * {{cite book |last=Gilbert |first=Keith V. |title=History of the Dayton Project |publisher=Mound Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission |location=Miamisburg, OH |year=1969 |url=http://www.eecap.org/PDF_Files/Ohio/Dayton_Project/History/HISTORY_OF_THE_DAYTON_PROJECT.pdf |access-date=31 October 2014 |oclc=650540359 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412054801/https://www.eecap.org/PDF_Files/Ohio/Dayton_Project/History/HISTORY_OF_THE_DAYTON_PROJECT.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2019 |url-status=dead }} * {{cite book |last=Gosling |first=Francis George |title=The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb |year=1994 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Department of Energy, History Division |oclc=637052193}} * {{cite book |last=Gowing |first=Margaret |author-link=Margaret Gowing |title=Britain and Atomic Energy, 1935β1945 |year=1964 |location=London |publisher=Macmillan Publishing |oclc=3195209}} * {{cite book |editor-last=Grodzins |editor-first=Morton |editor2-last=Rabinowitch |editor2-first=Eugene |title=The Atomic Age: Scientists in National and World Affairs|year=1963|publisher=Basic Book Publishing |location=New York |oclc=15058256}} * {{cite book |last1=Hewlett |first1=Richard G. |author-link=Richard G. Hewlett |last2=Anderson |first2=Oscar E. |title=The New World, 1939β1946 |location=University Park |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |year=1962 |url=https://www.governmentattic.org/5docs/TheNewWorld1939-1946.pdf |access-date=26 March 2013 |oclc=637004643 }} * {{cite book |last1=Hewlett |first1=Richard G. |last2=Duncan |first2=Francis |title=Atomic Shield, 1947β1952 |series=A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, no. 2 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park|year=1969 |isbn=0-520-07187-5|oclc=3717478}} * {{cite book |last1=Holl |first1=Jack M. |title=Argonne National Laboratory, 1946β96 |first2=Richard G. |last2=Hewlett |author-link2=Richard G. Hewlett |first3=Ruth R. |last3=Harris |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-252-02341-5}} * {{cite book |last=Holloway |first=David |title=Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939β1956 |location=New Haven, Connecticut |publisher=Yale University Press |year=1994 |isbn=0-300-06056-4 |oclc=29911222}} * {{cite book |last1=Howes |first1=Ruth H. |author-link1=Ruth Howes|last2=Herzenberg |first2=Caroline L. |author-link2=Caroline Herzenberg |title=Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Temple University Press |year=1999 |isbn=1-56639-719-7 |oclc=49569088}} * {{cite book |last=Hunner |first=Jon |title=Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community |location=Norman |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8061-3891-6|oclc=154690200}} * {{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Charles |last2=Jackson |first2=Charles |title= City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942β1946 |location=Knoxville|publisher=University of Tennessee Press |year=1981 |isbn=0-87049-303-5 |oclc=6331350}} * {{cite book |last=Jones |first=Vincent |title=Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb |publisher=United States Army Center of Military History |location=Washington, D.C. |year=1985 |oclc=10913875 |url=http://history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-10/CMH_Pub_11-10.pdf |access-date=25 August 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130928054748/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-10/CMH_Pub_11-10.pdf| archive-date = 28 Sep 2013}} * {{cite book |last=Jungk |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Jungk |year=1958 |title=[[Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists]] |location=New York |publisher=Harcourt Brace |oclc=181321}} * {{cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Phillips Payson |title=How the War Was Won |date=2015 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-01475-6 |oclc=907550561}} * {{cite book |last= Phelps |first= Stephen |year= 2010 |title= The Tizard Mission: the Top-Secret Operation that Changed the Course of World War II |location= Yardley, PA |publisher= Westholme |isbn=978-1-59416-116-2 |oclc=642846903}} * {{cite book |last=Rhodes |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Rhodes |title=[[The Making of the Atomic Bomb]] |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1986 |isbn=0-671-44133-7|oclc=13793436}} * {{cite book |editor-last=Sklar |editor-first=Morty |title=Nuke-Rebuke: Writers & Artists Against Nuclear Energy & Weapons |series=The Contemporary anthology series |year= 1984 |publisher=The Spirit That Moves Us Press |location=Iowa City |isbn=978-0-930370-16-9 |oclc=973585699 }} * {{cite book |last=Stacey |first=C. P. |url=http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/docs/AMG_e.pdf |title=Arms, Men and Government: The War Policies of Canada, 1939β1945 |publisher=The Queen's Printer by authority of the Minister of National Defence |year=1970 |oclc=610317261 |access-date=6 September 2012 |archive-date=20 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620111320/http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/docs/AMG_e.pdf |url-status=dead }} * {{cite book | last=Sullivan | first=Neil J. | title=The Prometheus Bomb: The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark | location=Lincoln | publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-61234-815-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Md4nDwAAQBAJ }} * {{cite book |last=Sweeney |first=Michael S. |title=Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=2001 |location=Chapel Hill |isbn=0-8078-2598-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/secretsofvictory00swee }} * {{cite book |last=Villa |first=Brian L. |title=The Second World War as a National Experience: Canada |contribution=Chapter 11: Alliance Politics and Atomic Collaboration, 1941β1943 |publisher=The Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, Department of National Defence |year=1981 |editor-first=Aster |editor-last=Sidney |editor-link=Sidney Aster |oclc=11646807 |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/Canada/Natl_Exp/index.html |access-date=8 December 2014 }} * {{cite book |last=Walker |first=J. Samuel |author-link=J. Samuel Walker |title=The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-520-26045-0 |oclc=276274684 }} * {{cite book |last=Wellerstein |first=Alex |author-link=Alex Wellerstein |title=Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-226-02038-9 |oclc=1178870332 }} * {{cite book |last=Williams |first=Mary H. |title=Chronology 1941β1945 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army |year=1960 |oclc=1358166}} ===Technical histories=== * {{cite book |editor-last=Ahnfeldt|editor-first=Arnold Lorentz |title= Radiology in World War II |publisher=Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army |location=Washington, DC |year=1966 |oclc=630225}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Richard D. |last2=Hecker |first2=Siegfried S. |last3=Harbur |first3=Delbert R.|title=Plutonium: A Wartime Nightmare but a Metallurgist's Dream |url=http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?07-16.pdf |journal=Los Alamos Science |issue=Winter/Spring |year=1983 |pages=142β151 |access-date=22 November 2010}} * {{cite book |editor-last= Ermenc |editor-first= Joseph J. |title= Atomic Bomb Scientists: Memoirs, 1939β1945 |year= 1989 |publisher= Meckler |location= Westport, Connecticut & London |isbn= 978-0-88736-267-5}} (1967 interview with Groves) * {{cite book |last=Hanford Cultural and Historic Resources Program |year=2002 |publisher=Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |title=History of the Plutonium Production Facilities, 1943β1990 |location=Richland, WA |oclc=52282810}} * {{cite book |last=Hansen |first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Hansen |series=Swords of Armageddon: US Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945 |title=Volume I: The Development of US Nuclear Weapons |location=Sunnyvale, CA |publisher=Chukelea Publications |year= 1995a |isbn=978-0-9791915-1-0|oclc=231585284}} * {{cite book |last=Hansen |first=Chuck |series=Swords of Armageddon: US Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945 |title=Volume V: US Nuclear Weapons Histories |location=Sunnyvale, CA |publisher=Chukelea Publications |year= 1995b |isbn=978-0-9791915-0-3|oclc=231585284}} * {{cite book |last1= Hawkins |first1= David |last2= Truslow |first2= Edith C. |last3= Smith |first3= Ralph Carlisle |title= Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Los Alamos story, Vol. 2 |publisher= Tomash Publishers |year= 1961 |location= Los Angeles |quote= Originally published as Los Alamos Report LAMS-2532 |osti= 1087645 |doi= 10.2172/1087645 |url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/projectylosalamo0002unse}} * {{cite book |last1=Hoddeson |first1=Lillian|author-link=Lillian Hoddeson|first2=Paul W. |last2=Henriksen |first3=Roger A. |last3=Meade |first4=Catherine L. |last4=Westfall|author4-link= Catherine Westfall |title=Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943β1945 |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-521-44132-2 |oclc=26764320 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/criticalassembly0000unse}} * {{cite journal |last1=Home |first1=R. W. |last2=Low |first2=Morris F. |title=Postwar Scientific Intelligence Missions to Japan |journal=Isis |volume= 84 |issue= 3 |date=September 1993 |pages=527β537 |jstor=235645 |doi=10.1086/356550 }} * {{cite journal |last=Kemp |first=R. Scott |title=The End of Manhattan: How the Gas Centrifuge Changed the Quest for Nuclear Weapons |journal=Technology and Culture |issn=0040-165X |volume=53 |issue=2 |date=April 2012 |pages=272β305 |doi=10.1353/tech.2012.0046 }} * {{cite journal |last1=Ruhoff |first1=John |last2=Fain |first2=Pat |title=The First Fifty Critical days |date=June 1962 |journal=Mallinckrodt Uranium Division News |volume= 7 |issue= 3 and 4 |access-date=30 October 2010 |url=http://www.mphpa.org/classic/CP/Mallinckrodt/Pages/MALK_Gallery_01.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330001357/http://www.mphpa.org/classic/CP/Mallinckrodt/Pages/MALK_Gallery_01.htm |archive-date=30 March 2015}} * {{cite book |last=Sandia|title=The History of the Mk4 Bomb |year=1967 |url=https://osf.io/962rw/download |publisher=Sandia National Laboratory |access-date=11 November 2019}} * {{cite book |last1=Serber |first1=Robert |author-link=Robert Serber |first2=Richard |last2=Rhodes |author-link2=Richard Rhodes |title=The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb |location=Berkeley|publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-520-07576-4|oclc=23693470}} (Available on [[commons:File:Los Alamos Primer.pdf|Wikimedia Commons]]) * {{cite book |last=Smyth |first=Henry DeWolf |author-link=Henry DeWolf Smyth |title=Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: the Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940β1945 |location=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1945 |oclc=770285|title-link=Smyth Report}} * {{cite book |last=Thayer |first=Harry |title=Management of the Hanford Engineer Works In World War II: How the Corps, DuPont and the Metallurgical Laboratory Fast Tracked the Original Plutonium Works |publisher=American Society of Civil Engineers Press |location= New York |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-7844-0160-6|oclc=34323402}} * {{cite book |last=Waltham |first=Chris |title=An Early History of Heavy Water |publisher=Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia |date=20 June 2002|arxiv=physics/0206076 |bibcode=2002physics...6076W}} * {{cite journal |last=Weinberg |first=Alvin M. |author-link=Alvin M. Weinberg |title=Impact of Large-Scale Science on the United States |journal=Science |series=New Series |volume=134 |issue=3473 |date=21 July 1961 |pages=161β164 |jstor=1708292 |bibcode=1961Sci...134..161W |doi=10.1126/science.134.3473.161 |pmid=17818712}} ===Participant accounts=== * {{cite book |last=Bethe |first=Hans A. |author-link=Hans Bethe |title=The Road from Los Alamos |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=1991 |isbn=0-671-74012-1 |oclc=22661282 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/roadfromlosalamo00beth}} * {{cite book |last=Compton |first=Arthur |author-link=Arthur Compton |year=1956 |title=Atomic Quest |url=https://archive.org/details/atomicquestperso0000comp |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |oclc=173307}} * {{cite book |last=Goudsmit |first=Samuel A. |author-link=Samuel Goudsmit |title=Alsos |publisher=Henry Schuman |year=1947 |location=New York |oclc=8805725}} * {{cite book |last=Groves |first=Leslie |author-link=Leslie Groves |title=Now it Can be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project |url=https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetolds00grov|url-access=registration|location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1962 |oclc=537684}} * {{cite book |last=Libby|first=Leona Marshall |author-link=Leona Woods|title=Uranium People |location=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1979 |isbn=0-684-16242-3 |oclc=4665032}} * {{cite book |last=Nichols |first=Kenneth David |author-link=Kenneth Nichols |title=The Road to Trinity: A Personal Account of How America's Nuclear Policies Were Made |location=New York |publisher=William Morrow and Co. |year= 1987|isbn=0-688-06910-X |oclc=15223648}} * {{cite book |last=Wallace |first=Henry |author-link=Henry A. Wallace |title=The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace, 1942β1946 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |year=1973 |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-395-17121-9 |oclc=627817 }}
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