Oregon State UniversitySpecial Collections & Archives Research Center

History of Atomic Energy Collection, 1896-1991

2. The Manhattan Project and the Use of Nuclear Weapons during World War II. 1936-1988.

The focus of this series is the time period from the development of the first nuclear weapons by the Manhattan Project through the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of World War II.


177 items

(Page: 1 - 100)


0292.
THE A.C. GILBERT COMPANY, New Haven, Conn. "Atomic Bomb." Curious children's puzzle-game, comprising a map of Japan with holes for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, housed in a glass-topped cardboard box with 2 "bombs" in the shape of jumping beans, which must be inserted in the holes by judiciously shaking the box. Approximately 4 x 3 x 1 inches. New Haven: Gilbert Co. circa late 1945.
0293.
ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI. Celebrazione del Ventesimo Anniversario della Prima Reazione Nucleare a Catena Controllata. 15 pages. Tall 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Roma: ANL. 1963.
Includes "Discorso per la Celebrazione di Enrico Fermi" by Albert Wattenberg; and, "Vent'anni dalla prima Reazione Nucleare a Catena Controllata" by Edoardo Amaldi.
0294.
ALAMOGORDO ARMY AIR BASE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE. Alamogordo Army Air Base (cover title). 16 leaves. Illustrated throughout from photographs. 4to, pictorial self-wrappers. San Antonio: Universal Press. n.d. (circa 1943)..
A view of recruit life at the newly constructed bomber base.
0295.
ALLARDICE, CORBIN & EDWARD R. TRAPNELL. "The First Atomic Pile." IN: Astounding Science Fiction. Vol. XLVIII, No. 4, pp. 82-98. 170 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. New York: Street & Smith. December 1951.
0296.
ALLARDICE, CORBIN & EDWARD R. TRAPNELL. "The First Pile." 21 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Argonne National Laboratory. February 1961. QC790.4.P5 A44 1961
A reprint of AEC Report TID-292, March 1955, with additional photographs. CHARTER HESLEP'S COPY, signed & annotated by him.
0297.
ALSOP, JOSEPH & STEWART. "The Atom Bomb: Your Flesh Should Creep." Feature article IN: The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 219, No. 2. 124 pages. Illustrated. Folio, pictorial wrappers. Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing. July 13, 1946.
"Did our national safety die at Hiroshima? Can we protect the country against atomic warfare? Experts of the General Staff, after calmly studying frightful possibilities, see no military defense-and only one hope. Here are the facts-cold turkey."
0298.
AMRINE, MICHAEL. The Great Decision. The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb. 251 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Putnam's. 1959. D767.2 .A5
0299.
"ANNIHILATION BOMB - FRIEND OR FOE?" A Statement by the Editors of Popular Science Monthly. IN: Popular Science, Vol. 147, No. 3. Illustrated. 4to, pictorial wrappers. New York: Popular Science. September 1945.
An early look at the atomic bomb. Compares and contrasts its effects to that of the explosion of nine million pounds of ammonium nitrate near Oppau, Germany, in 1921.
0300.
[ANONYMOUS]. The Release of Atomic Energy, by The Tibetan. 6 pages. Mimeographed typescript. 4to, stapled. New York: Arcane School, 11 West 42nd Street, 32nd Floor. August 9, 1945.
A very unusual analysis of the atomic bombing of Japan in the light of Eastern mystical philosophies. The date "Aug 9, 1945" is hand-stamped in the upper right corner. Possibly a unique exemplar, as it is doubtful that very many copies of this highly ephemeral piece have survived.
0301.
THE ATOMIC AGE OPENS. Prepared by the Editors of Pocket Books. 252 pages. Illustrated. 12mo, decorative wrappers. New York: Pocket Books, Inc. August 1945. QC173 .P55 1945
FIRST EDITION, first issue, of the first mass market account of the atomic bomb.
0302.
THE ATOMIC AGE OPENS. Edited by Gerald Wendt & Donald Porter Geddes. 251 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Cleveland: World Publishing. November 1945. QC173 .P55 1945b
0303.
"THE ATOMIC BOMB: How Weapon that Launched a New Age was Produced; Here is what Americans Can and Must Know About It." IN: Life, Vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 90-100. 120 pages. Illustrated. Folio, pictorial wrappers. New York: Time, Inc. February 27, 1950.
Stated purpose of the article "is to make public the information that Americans must have in order to think clearly in an atomic age."
0304.
ATOMIC BOMB CASUALTY COMMISSION. General Report. January 1947. 112 pages. Mimeographed typescript. Illustrated with photographs. 4to, printed wrappers, stapled. Washington: NRC. 1947.
The very scarce first report by the commission, headed by Dr. Austin M. Brues and Dr. Paul S. Henshaw.
0305.
BARKER, RODNEY. The Hiroshima Maidens. A Story of Courage, Compassion, and Survival. 240 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. New York: Penguin Books. 1986. D767.25.H6 B37 1986
Story of twenty-five Japanese women who travelled to the United States in 1955 to undergo reconstructive surgery to repair their injuries from the atomic bomb. Two of the Hiroshima Maidens had stayed with the Author's family when he was a child.
0306.
BAXTER, JAMES PHINNEY, 3rd. Scientists Against Time. 473 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Boston: Little, Brown. 1946. Q127.U6 B3
PRESENTATION COPY TO E.H. COLPITTS (vice-president of Bell Labs), SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY BAXTER.
0307.
BENEDICT, MANSON & CLARKE WILLIAMS, Editors. Engineering Developments in Gaseous Diffusion Process. 129 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1949. TP245.U7 B4
From the Manhattan Project Technical Series.
0308.
BOND, HORATIO, Editor. Fire and the Air War. A Compilation of Expert Observations on Fires of the War Set by Incendiaries and the Atomic Bombs. 262 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Boston: National Fire Protection Association. 1946. UG447 .N3 1946
0309.
BOSTON HERALD NEWSPAPER. Atomic Bomb Hits Nagasaki. Soviet Enters War. U.S. Bids Tokyo Quit. August 9, 1945.
0310.
BURTON, PROF. E.F. "The Background of the Atomic Bomb." 16 pages. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Canada: The Globe and Mail. 1945.
An offprint from the Globe and Mail. Possibly the earliest popular explanation of the atomic bomb published in Canada.
0311.
BUSH, VANNEVAR. Pieces of the Action. 366 pages. Portrait. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: William Morrow. 1970. Q127.U6 B87
Presentation copy, signed & inscribed by Bush.
0312.
CHURCH, FERMOR S. & PEGGY POND. When Los Alamos was a Ranch School. 64 pages. Illustrated. Oblong 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Los Alamos Historical Society. 1974. LD7501.L7298 C48 1974
0313.
CHURCH, PEGGY POND. The House at Otowi Bridge. The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos. Drawings by Connie Fox Boyd. 149 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1960. F804.L6 C5
0314.
CHRISTRUP, JUDY. A New Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. IN: Greenpeace, Volume 13, Number 4, p. 9. 23 pages. Illustrated. Unbound. Washington, D.C.: Greenpeace USA. July/August 1988.
0315.
CITIZENS' GROUP TO CONVEY TESTIMONIES OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. Give Me Water. Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 60 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. (Tokyo). 1973. D767.25.H6 G45 1972
Third printing.
0316.
COHEN, KARL. The Theory of Isotope Separation as Applied to the Large-Scale Production of U235. Edited by George Murphy. 165 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1951. QD466.5.U7 C6
Manhattan Project Technical Series. Div. III. Vol. 1B.
0317.
COMMITTEE FOR THE COMPILATION OF MATERIALS ON DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC BOMBS IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings. Translated by Eisei Ishikawa and David L. Swain. 706 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. London: Hutchinson. 1981. D767.25.H6 H67 1981c
0318.
CROWTHER, J.G. & R. WHIDDINGTON. Science at War. 185 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. London: HMSO. 1950. UG145 .C7 1948b
"The Atomic Bomb," pp. 121-150.
0319.
D'ALBUQUERQUE, PROF. ARTUR. Bomba Radiognetica (Bomba Atomica) 1936-1940. 62 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Lisboa: Livraria Renascenca. n.d. (1945).
PRESENTATION COPY, Inscribed by the Author, who here presents his claim as an inventor of the atomic bomb, a plan for which he submitted to the United States Government in May 1943. Very scarce.
0320.
DIEKE, G.H. & A.B.F. DUNCAN. "Properties of Uranium Compounds." 290 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1949. QC464.U7 D5
From the Manhattan Project Technical Series.
0321.
DITLEV, HANS. Atom Spraengning. 75 pages. 8vo, decorative wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Kjobenhavn: Arnold Busck. 1945.
One of the earliest Danish accounts of the atomic bomb.
0322.
DUNHAM, CHARLES L., M.D. Second Inter-American Symposium on the Peaceful Application of Nuclear Energy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 1-5, 1959. Trip Report. Original mimeographed typescript. 18 leaves, printed on rectos only. 4to, unbound, stapled. (Buenos Aires). 1959.
Includes text of Dunham's speech at the symposium, in which he reminisces about worker health and safety during the Manhattan project.
0323.
EATHERLY, CLAUDE. Burning Conscience. The case of the Hiroshima pilot. . . told in his letters to Guenther Anders. Preface by Bertrand Russell. 135 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1961. BR115.A85 E2131 1961
0324.
EATHERLY, CLAUDE. Burning Conscience. The Case of the Hiroshima Pilot, Claude Eatherly, told in his letters to Gunther Anders, with a postcript for American Readers by Anders. Preface by Bertrand Russell. Foreword by Robert Jungk. 139 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: Monthly Review Press. 1962. BR115.A85 E213 1962
0325.
"EFFECTS OF ATOMIC BOMB: What Ended the War." IN: Life, Vol. 19, No. 12, pp. 36-39. 148 pages. Illustrated. Folio, pictorial wrappers. Chicago: Time, Inc. September 17, 1945.
0326.
EVANS, MEDFORD. The Secret War for the A-Bomb. Introduction by James Burnham. 302 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Chicago: Henry Regnery. 1953. HD9698.A28 E8 1953
0327.
FEIS, HERBERT. Japan Subdued. The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War in the Pacific. 199 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Princeton University Press. 1961. D767.2 .F4
0328.
FINK, ROBERT M. Biological Studies with Polonium, Radium, and Plutonium. 411 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1950. QP913.P6 F5
NNES Manhattan Project Technical Section Division VI- Volume 3.
0329.
FISHER, PHYLLIS. Los Alamos Experience. Foreword by Alan Cranston. 266 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Tokyo: Japan Publications Inc. 1985. F804.L6 F51
First-hand account by a social worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Her husband was Leon Fisher, one of the physicists who helped develop the bomb.
0330.
FISHER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY. "The Battle of the Laboratories." IN: The Laboratory. Volume 15: Number 5. pp. 98-138. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Pittsburgh: Fisher. n.d. (1945).
Includes "Science Contributes the Atom Bomb."
0331.
GIORGI, GIOVANNI. La Frantumazione dell'Atomo. Come si e pervenuti a leberare l'Energia Subatomica e a Produrre le Esplosioni. 134 pages. Frontispiece. 8vo, decorative wrappers, uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION. Roma: Ruffolo-Editore. 1946.
0332.
GIOVANNITTI, LEN & FRED FREED. The Decision to Drop the Bomb. A Political History. 348 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. New York: Coward-McCann. 1965. UA23 .G53
0333.
GOLIK, MIROSLAV. Atom i Atomska Bomba. 230 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Zagreb: A. Velzek. 1945.
Possibly the first separately published account of the atomic bomb issued in Yugoslavia.
0334.
GOUDSMIT, SAMUEL A. Alsos. 259 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Henry Schuman. 1947. D810.S2 G6 1947
History of atomic physics under the Nazis.
0335.
GOUDSMIT, SAMUEL A. Alsos. With a New Introduction by R.V. Jones. 259 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. Los Angeles: Tomash Publishers. 1983. D810.S2 G6 1983
0336.
GOULD, S.H. "The Theory of Relativity and the Atomic Bomb." IN: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. LXV, No. 1, pp. 48-60. 90 pages. 4to, pictorial wrappers. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science. July 1947. QC6 .G68
0337.
GOWING, MARGARET. Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945. 464 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. London: St. Martin's Press. 1964. QC773.A1 G6
0338.
GRAVES, ALVIN C. & DAROL K. FROMAN, Editors. Miscellaneous Physical and Chemical Techniques of the Los Alamos Project. Experimental Techniques. 323 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1952. QC784 .G7
0339.
GREAT BRITAIN. Statements Relating to the Atomic Bomb. 23 pages. 8vo, printed self-wrappers. London: HMSO. 1945. UF767 .G7 1945
First published account of the tube alloys project by the British government.
0340.
GROOT, DR. H. Atoomopbouw, Atoomafbraak, Atoomsplitsing. 62 pages. 8vo, decorative boards. FIRST EDITION. (Laren, N.H.). September 1945.
First published Dutch account of the atomic bomb.
0341.
GROUEFF, STEPHANE. Manhattan Project. The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. 372 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Boston: Little, Brown. 1967. QC773.3.U5 G7
Still the best "unofficial" history of the Manhattan project- invaluable in conjunction with Hewlett & Anderson's official history, The New World.
0342.
GROVES, LESLIE R. Now It Can Be Told. The Story of the Manhattan Project. 464 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: Harper & Row. 1962. QC773.A1 G7
0343.
GUTHRIE, A. & R.K. WAKERLING, Editors. The Characteristics of Electrical Discharges in Magnetic Fields. 376 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1949. QC711 .G8
0344.
GUTHRIE, A. & R.K. WAKERLING, Editors. Vacuum Equipment and Techniques. 264 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1949. QC166 .G8
0345.
HACHIYA, MICHIHIKO, M.D. Hiroshima Diary. The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6-September 30, 1945. Translated and Edited by Warner Wells, M.D. 238 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press. 1955. D767.25.H6 H3
0346.
HACKER, BARTON C. The Dragon's Tail. Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942-1946. 258 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Berkeley: U. of California Press. 1987. U264 .H33 1987
This is the official DOE-sponsored history of health and safety during the Manhattan project. For a detailed critique of this book, in which it is maintained that Hacker ignores or suppresses information on radioactive contamination of early nuclear weapons workers, particularly in the lower ranks, see Robert Alvarez's review in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, December 1987, pp. 46-48.
0347.
(HAHN, OTTO). Bothe, Walther & Siegfried Flugge. Nuclear Physics and Cosmic Rays: FIAT Review of German Science 1939-1946. 2 volumes. 230; 198 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. Wiesbaden: Office of Military Government for Germany. 1948. QC776 .B6 1948
Thorough review of German nuclear research during the war years. Includes Hahn's "Die Auffindung der Uranspaltung." Other contributors include Werner Heisenberg, K. Starke, E. Bagge, and F.G. Houtermans.
0348.
HAWLEY, GESSNER G. & SIGMUND W. LEIFSON. Atomic Energy in War and Peace. 212 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. New York: Reinhold. 1945. QC173 .H36 1945
0349.
HEWLETT, RICHARD G. & OSCAR E. ANDERSON, JR. A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Volume I. The New World, 1939/1946. 766 pages. Illustrated. 4to, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. University Park: Penn. State University Press. 1962. HD9698.U52 H55 1962
An indispensable reference - the official history of the Manhattan project.
0350.
HIROSHIMA: Published by Hiroshima City. 103 pages. Illustrations throughout from photographs. 4to, cloth. FIRST EDITION. Hiroshima City. 1970. DS897.H5 H57413 1970
A picture chronicle documenting the rebirth of Hiroshima after the atomic bombing.
0351.
HIROSHIMA COMMITTEE FOR WORLD PEACE COUNCIL. It Was 8:15 AM. A Record of Atomic-bomb Hiroshima for the Last Ten Years. 88 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Hiroshima: HCWPC. 1955.
0352.
(HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI PILOTS). Glossy black-and-white 7-1/2 x 7-1/2 inch photograph depicting Charles W. Sweeney, pilot of the "Bock's Car," and Paul W. Tibbets, pilot of the "Enola Gay" shaking hands, mounted in mat with inset autographs of Sweeney and Tibbets. N.p. No Date.
0353.
HIROSHIMA PHOTOGRAPH (cover title). 6 leaves. Illustrated with 24 actual mounted photographs. Small 4to, decorative wrappers, upper wrapper with schematic design of an atom in red, white, and, blue on a purple ground, rear wrapper with map of Hiroshima. Hiroshima: Hiroshima Peace Society. October. 1, 1949.
Includes original prints of 2 of the very few known photographs taken in Hiroshima on the day of the bombing.
0354.
HIROSHIMA PLUS 20. Prepared by the New York Times. Introduction by John W. Finney. 211 pages. Illustrated 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Delacorte Press. 1965. UF767 .N4
0355.
HIROSHIMA PUBLISHING COMPANY. Hiroshima. 27 pages. Illustrated, including reproduction of paintings in color by Hatsusaburo Yoshida. 4to, color-pictorial self-wrappers. Hiroshima: Hiroshima Publishing Company. 1949. D767.25.H6 H66 1949
An interesting information brochure for tourists visiting Hiroshima under the American Occupation. Includes much on the atomic bombing and subsequent recovery.
0356.
HUIE, WILLIAM BRADFORD. The Hiroshima Pilot. 318 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Putnam's. 1964. CT275.E237 H8 1964
The case of Major Claude Eatherly.
0357.
HUIE, WILLIAM BRADFORD. The Hiroshima Pilot. 344 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Pocket Books. April 1965. CT275.E237 H8 1965
0358.
IRVING, DAVID. The German Atomic Bomb. The History of Nuclear Research in Nazi Germany. 329 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1967. QC773.A1 .I7
0359.
JANIS, IRVING L. Psychological Effects of the Atomic Attacks on Japan. [2], vi, 69 numbered leaves, mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. 4to, printed looseleaf wrappers. Santa Monica: The RAND Corporation. 29 August 1950. UF767 .J3 1950
Research Memorandum RM-439. Copy No. 16 of an unspecified limitation. The first "comprehensive description of the psychological impact of the A-bomb."
0360.
JANIS, DR. IRVING L. Psychological Effects of Atomic Bombing. 17 pages. 4to, printed wrappers. Washington, D.C.: Industrial College of the Armed Forces. 1954.
"Not for General Publication." Issued for official use only by resident students at the ICAF.
0361.
JETTE, ELEANOR. Inside Box 1663. 135 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Los Alamos Historical Society. 1977. QC773.3.U5 J47 1977
Intimate contemporary reminiscences of life in wartime Los Alamos, unpublished until 1977.
0362.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Heller als tausend Sonnen. Das Schicksal der Atomforscher. 368 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Bern: Alfred Scherz Verlag. 1956. QC773 .J8 1956
0363.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Brighter than a Thousand Suns. A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. 369 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1958. QC773 .J813
English translation of Heller als tausend Sonnen.
0364.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Brighter than a Thousand Suns. The Story of the Men who Made the Bomb. Translated by James Cleugh. 369 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Grove Press. 1958. QC773 .J814 1958
0365.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Gli Apprendisti Stregoni. 367 pages. Small 4to, printed wrappers, dust jacket. Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore. 1959. QC773 .J95 1959
Italian translation by Piero Bernardini Marzolla of Heller als tausend Sonnen.
0366.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Brighter than a Thousand Suns. A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. Translated by James Cleugh. 330 pages. 8vo, decorative wrappers. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 1960. QC773 .J813 1960
0367.
JUNGK, ROBERT. Children of the Ashes. The Story of a Rebirth. Translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon. 317 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERCIAN EDITION. New York: Harcourt. 1961. DS897.H5 J8 1961
Story of the destruction and revovery of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
0368.
KILBOURN, CPL. JONATHAN. "The Mighty Atom." IN: Yank. The Army Weekly, Vol. 4, No. 12. 12 unnumbered leaves. Folio, pictorial self-wrappers. New York: Yank. September 7, 1945.
Six-page illustrated account of the Manhattan project and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
0369.
KIMBALL, ALICE H. Bibliography of Research on Heavy Hydrogen Compounds. Edited by Harold C. Urey and Isidor Kirshenbaum. 350 pages. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1949. Z5524.H9 K5
Manhattan Project Technical Series, Div. III-Volume 4 C.
0370.
KINNAIRD, CLARK, Editor. It Happened in 1945. 464 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 1946. D410 .I8 1945
PP. 127-153 comprise a rather detailed history of the development of the atomic bomb and its aftermath.
0371.
KIRSHENBAUM, ISIDOR. Physical Properties and Analysis of Heavy Water. Edited by Harold C. Urey and George C. Murphy. 438 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1951. QD181.H1 K5
From the Manhattan Project Technical Series.
0372.
KNEBEL, FLETCHER & CHARLES W. BAILEY II. No High Ground. 209 pages. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. New York: Bantam Books. First Bantam edition. 1961. D767.25.H6 K68 1961
Well-written account of the first atomic bomb.
0373.
KUNETKA, JAMES W. City of Fire. Los Alamos and the Birth of the Atomic Age 1943/1945. 234 pages. Illustrated. 4to, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 1978. QC792.8.U6 L674 1978
0374.
KURZMAN, DAN. Day of the Bomb. Countdown to Hiroshima. 546 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1986. D767.25.H6 K865 1986
0375.
LAMONT, LANSING. Day of Trinity. 333 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Atheneum. 1965. QC773.A1 L3
0376.
LAMONT, LANSING. Day of Trinity. 254 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, pictorial wrappers. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Signet Books. 1966. QC773.A1 L3 1966
0377.
LANG, DANIEL. Early Tales of the Atomic Age. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. 223 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Doubleday. 1948. QC173 .L28
0378.
LAURENCE, WILLIAM L. Dawn Over Zero. The Story of the Atomic Bomb. 274 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Knopf. 1946. UF767 .L387 1946
0379.
LAURENCE, WILLIAM L. The Story of the Atomic Bomb. A Series of Articles Reprinted from the New York Times. 40 pages. 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION. New York Times. 1945. UF767 .L38 1945
0380.
LIBBY, LEONA MARSHALL. The Uranium People. 341 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Crane, Russack. 1979. QC773.3.U5 L52
Account of the Manhattan project, by the youngest and only woman member of the team that built the first nuclear reactor.
0381.
LIEBOW, AVERILL A. Encounter with Disaster. A Medical Diary of Hiroshima, 1945. 209 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: W.W. Norton. 1970. RA645.7.J3 L5 1970
0382.
LIEBOW, AVERILL A., M.D., SHIELDS WARREN, M.D. & ELBERT DE COURSEY, COL., M.C., U.S.A. Pathology of Atomic Bomb Casualties. Reprinted from the American Journal of Pathology, 1949, Vol. XXV, No. 5, pp. 853-1027. Illustrated. 8vo, printed wrappers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Ann Arbor: Am. Journal of Pathology. 1949.
0383.
LIFE. August 1945. 124 pages. Illustrated. Folio, pictorial wrappers. New York: Time, Inc. 1945.
Includes: "The Atom Bomb and Future War" by Hanson W. Baldwin; "Manhattan Project" by Francis Sill Wickware (photo-essay); "The Atomic Bomb: Its First Explosion Opens New Era" (photo-essay); "Atom Bombs Obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki;" and, "Editorial: The Atomic Age."
0384.
LIFTON, ROBERT JAY. Death in Life. Survivors of Hiroshima. 594 pages. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Random House. 1967. D767.25.H6 L4 1967
PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY LIFTON.
0385.
MACPHERSON, MALCOLM C. Time Bomb. Fermi, Heisenberg, and the Race for the Atomic Bomb. 316 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. New York: Dutton. 1986. QC773 .M24 1986
0386.
MANHATTAN PROJECT PIN. Circular sterling silver pin, lettered "MANHATTAN PROJECT A BOMB." 9/16 inches in diameter. N.p. circa 1945.
This commemorative pin is of extreme rarity. It was apparently given to selected members of the project upon its successful completion. It is lettered in miniscule type on the reverse "WHITEHEAD-HOAG STERLING."
(illustrate the item)
0387.
MARUKI, TOSHI. Hiroshima No Pika. Illustrated after paintings by the Author. Unpaginated. 4to, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. New York: Lothrop. 1980. D767.25.H6 M2913 1980
0388.
MARUKI, IRI & TOSHI MARUKI. The Hiroshima Murals. Edited by John W. Dower & John Junkerman. 128 pages. Illustrated. 4to, cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Tokyo: Kodansha. 1985. ND1059.M3 H57 1985
0489.
MARX, JOSEPH LAURANCE. Nagasaki. The Necessary Bomb? 239 pages. Illustrated. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. New York: Macmillan. 1971. JX1963 .B6773 1950
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