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 | Department of Energy Publications
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| Los Alamos National Laboratory Publications
 | Bainbridge, Trinity |
| Fakley, "The British Mission" |
| Hawkins, MDH: Project Y, Vol. 1 |
| Los Alamos: Beginning of an Era, 1943-1945 |
| Malik, Yields of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| "Oppenheimer Years" |
| Serber, Los Alamos Primer |
| Truslow, MDH: Project Y, Vol. 2 |
| Truslow, MDH: Nonscientific Aspects |
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| Oak Ridge National Laboratory Publications
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| Other Documents and Publications
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LIBRARY
Resources
A number of government publications relating to the Manhattan Project are
available either as web pages or as .pdf documents:
Department of Energy (DOE) Publications
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Publications
| Bainbridge,
Kenneth T., et al. Trinity (LA-6300-H). Los Alamos, NM:
Manhattan Engineer District, ca. 1945; first printed by Los Alamos
Scientific Laboratory in classified form as LA-1012; and reprinted in
unclassified form (with an added photographic appendix) as LA-6300-H in May
1976. 82 pp.
| Caution: this is a large file (4.3 MB). It was converted to
.pdf format by LANL. |
| This report was written primarily by Kenneth T. Bainbridge, test
director for Trinity. Other
contributors include Richard C. Tolman, Stafford C. Warren, Louis H.
Hempelmann, W. F. Schaffer, J. L. Magee, Robert R. Wilson, John H.
Manley, and J. E. Mack. |
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| Los Alamos: Beginning of an Era, 1943-1945.
Los Alamos, NM: Public Relations Office, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
n.d. (ca. 1967-1971). 52 (of 65) pp.
| Most of this publication is available (courtesy LANL)
via five .pdf files:
 | File #1:
"Starting Point" and "The Place," 1-10 (1.5 MB) |
| File #2:
"Living at Los Alamos," 11-18 (3.1 MB) |
| File #3:
"Designing the Bomb" and "Preparing the
Materials," 19-28 (1.7 MB) |
| File #4:
"Trinity," "The Plans," and "Trial
Run," 29-40 (2.0 MB) |
| File #5:
"Trial Run, May 7, 1945" and "Countdown," 41-52
(1.6 MB) |
| ("The New World," "They Built the Bomb," and
"After Trinity," 53-65, are not available in .pdf format) |
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| A history of the laboratory at Los
Alamos, 1943-1945, focusing especially on the Trinity
test. |
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| Truslow,
Edith C., with Kasha V. Thayer, ed. Manhattan District History: Nonscientific Aspects of Los Alamos
Project Y, 1942 through 1946. Los Alamos, NM: Manhattan Engineer
District, ca. 1946; first printed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory as
LA-5200, March 1973; reprinted in 1997 by the Los Alamos Historical
Society. 111 pp.
| Caution: this is a large file (8.6 MB). It was converted to .pdf
format by LANL. The .pdf file is
a copy of the 1973 LASL edition. |
| This was written in 1946 by 2nd Lieutenant Edith C. Truslow, a member of the
Women's
Army Corps, as a contribution to the Manhattan District History
commissioned by Leslie Groves. It
is the source of most of the information, and much of the text itself,
for the entries on this web site regarding "Los
Alamos: The Town." |
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Publications
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