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SUGGESTED READINGS
Resources
The literature on the Manhattan Project is extensive. The purpose
of this web page is not to catalogue it, but only to suggest a very select
few places to start. For more exhaustive lists of secondary
works relating to the early history of nuclear energy, consult the
bibliographies of the books listed below.
Suggested Surveys of the Manhattan Project
Gosling, F. G. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb.
DOE/MA-0001; Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, January
1999.
 | An overview history by the Chief Historian of the Department of
Energy
and the basis for most of the "Events" in this web
site. The best short survey for the general reader. Available in
.pdf format
and reprinted (with additional photographs) in October 2001 as
DOE/MA-0002. |
Hewlett, Richard G., and Oscar E. Anderson, Jr. The New World,
1939-1946: Volume I, A History of the United States Atomic Energy
Commission. Washington: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1972.
| Comprehensive official history produced by the
History Division, now the Office of History and Heritage Resources, of the Department of Energy. The standard
reference. |
| On the post-war period, see also its sequels, Hewlett and Francis
Duncan, Atomic Shield, 1947-1952: Volume II, A History of
the United States Atomic Energy Commission (Washington: U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission, 1972), and Hewlett and Jack M. Holl, Atoms
for Peace and War, 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy
Commission (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). |
Jones, Vincent C. Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb,
United States Army in World War II. Washington: Center of Military
History, United States Army, 1988.
| Another comprehensive official history, this time specifically from
the Army's point of view. A volume of the Army's legendary "Green
Series" of Second World War histories. |
Smyth, Henry DeWolf. Atomic
Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of
the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government,
1940-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945.
| The "Smyth Report" is still one of the best surveys of the
Manhattan Project as a whole. Though reprinted by Princeton
University Press, the Smyth Report, like all other histories written
on behalf of the government, is in the public domain. |
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