The Atomic Bomb

• A-Bomb WWW Museum
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Hiroshima (Mt Holyoke College)
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Nuclear Weapons (Mt Holyoke College)
• ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki) by Gene Dannen (gene@dannen.com)
• Nagasaki Journey A photo essay on the atomic bomb blast at Nagasaki, Japan.
• Enola Gay
• Douglas J. MacEachin, The Final Months of the War With Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision Center for the Study of Intelligence. Central Intelligence Agency.
• Nuclear Weapons: The High Energy Weapons Archive - A Guide to Nuclear Weapons
• The Nuclear Files

Nuclear Age Resources

• Bureau of Atomic Tourism
• Becoming Death: Film Notes Film series: Cinema & the Atomic Age.
• Todd's Atomic Homepage
• Executive Summary: Atomic Costs

Selected Documents from Hiroshima's Shadow

• Japan's Struggle to End the War: United States Strategic Bombing Survey, July 1, 1945.
• The Grew Memo: Emperor as Post-War Constitutional Monarch, May 28, 1945.
• The Marshall Memo: Change the Terms of Unconditional Surrender, June 9, 1945.
• The McCloy Diary: General Marshall Argues Restrict First Use to Military Target, May 29, 1945.
• The Leahy Diary: Prospect of a Negotiated Surrender, June 18, 1945.
• The Forrestal Diary: Japanese Peace Feelers, June 19 - July 26, 1945.
• The Magic Intercepts: Japanese Terms for Conditional Surrender, July 13, 1945.
• The Stimson Memo: Prior Warning with "Ample Time", July 2, 1945.
• The Bissell Memo: Prospects for Japan's Surrender, July 7, 1945.
• The Forrestal Diary: McCloy's Dissent on the Emperor and Prior Warning, March 8, 1947.
• The Truman Diary: Soviet Entry Means the Japanese Are "Fini", July 17 & 18, 1945.
• The McCloy Diary: Warning, Surrender & Truman's "Big Red Apple", July 17, 23 & 24, 1945.
• The Brown Diary: August 3rd Byrnes Acknowledges Japan "Looking for Peace", July 7 - August 11, 1945.
• The Stimson Diary: The Soviets & the S-1 Master Card, May 14 & 15, July 22, 1945.
• The July 17th Petition of the Manhattan Scientists, July 17, 1945.
• The Peril of Universal Death, Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, July 9, 1955.
• Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith, A Report by a Special Commission of the Federal Council of Churches.

Oppenheimer

Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by General Leslie R. Groves, Hans Bethe, George F. Kennan, Isador Rabi, Edward Teller

Q. [...] Do you or do you not believe that Dr. Oppenheimer is a security risk?

A. In a great number of cases I have seen Dr. Oppenheimer act-I under-stood that Dr. Oppenheimer acted in a way which for me was exceedingly hard to understand. I thoroughly disagreed with him in numerous issues and his actions frankly appeared to me confused and complicated. To this extent I feel that I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better, and therefore trust more.

In this very limited sense I would like to express a feeling that I would feel personally more secure if public matters would rest in other hands. Edward Teller

Science

150 YEARS OF SCIENCE Talk of the Nation NPR February 13, 1998. (RealAudio)