6.10 Appendix J: Further Reading
249
Serber, R.: The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build An
Atomic Bomb. University of California Press, Berkeley (1992). Copies of lectures
given by Serber to scientists arriving at Los Alamos in April 1943 are reproduced
and supplemented by extensive annotations. Includes a copy of the March 1940
Frisch-Peierls memoranda that can be said to have started the Project.
6.10.4 Websites
Readers are cautioned that websites and addresses can change.
ALSOS digital library for nuclear issues: The U. S. Nuclear Weapons Complex,
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=16D-GF2of9UXppSRknAN_ApFp
HBg&ll=27.322007519566913%2C-85.61426514999994&z=2. This interactive
map contains the locations of dozens of offices, mines, mills, plants, laboratories,
and test sites that comprised the U.S. nuclear complex from World War II to 2016.
Sections are organized to follow the progression of nuclear materials from mining
to weapons testing. A unique color code identifies the locations in each section.
Carey Sublette maintains an extensive site on nuclear weapons at http://nuclea
rweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq8.html.
Historian of science Alex Wellerstein maintains a website on nuclear secrecy,
nuclearsecrecy.com/blog, which contains a number of interesting documents, photos,
and resources for teachers and students. Of particular note is his “Nukemap” program,
which allows users to get an idea of the effects of detonating a nuclear weapon of
specified yield at a given location; nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap
Secret City: The Oak Ridge Story. The War Years. HP Video (2005). This DVD
relates the story of the development of the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge,
particularly the Y-12 and K-25 plants and the X-10 pilot-scale graphite reactor.
Rare color footage of construction activities is interspersed with black-and-white
images of community and social life and interviews with people who worked there.
Also, a 9-minute video of some of the earliest known footage of construction at
Oak Ridge is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWnm4N8Wnmk&
feature=channel_video_title.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s history website can be found at http://
www.lanl.gov/history.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a good source of up-to-date information
on weapons deployments, treaties concerning nuclear weapons, and nuclear issues
in general. www.thebulletin.org.
The National Science Foundation Digital Library on the Atomic Bomb at www.
atomicarchive.com contains material on the history and science of the atomic bomb,
and includes links to the full text of the Smyth report and the declassified version of
Bainbridge’s report on the Trinity test.
The office for history of science and technology at the University of California at
Berkeley has created a website exploring Robert Oppenheimer’s life. http://ohst.ber
keley.edu.
249
Serber, R.: The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build An
Atomic Bomb. University of California Press, Berkeley (1992). Copies of lectures
given by Serber to scientists arriving at Los Alamos in April 1943 are reproduced
and supplemented by extensive annotations. Includes a copy of the March 1940
Frisch-Peierls memoranda that can be said to have started the Project.
6.10.4 Websites
Readers are cautioned that websites and addresses can change.
ALSOS digital library for nuclear issues: The U. S. Nuclear Weapons Complex,
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=16D-GF2of9UXppSRknAN_ApFp
HBg&ll=27.322007519566913%2C-85.61426514999994&z=2. This interactive
map contains the locations of dozens of offices, mines, mills, plants, laboratories,
and test sites that comprised the U.S. nuclear complex from World War II to 2016.
Sections are organized to follow the progression of nuclear materials from mining
to weapons testing. A unique color code identifies the locations in each section.
Carey Sublette maintains an extensive site on nuclear weapons at http://nuclea
rweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq8.html.
Historian of science Alex Wellerstein maintains a website on nuclear secrecy,
nuclearsecrecy.com/blog, which contains a number of interesting documents, photos,
and resources for teachers and students. Of particular note is his “Nukemap” program,
which allows users to get an idea of the effects of detonating a nuclear weapon of
specified yield at a given location; nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap
Secret City: The Oak Ridge Story. The War Years. HP Video (2005). This DVD
relates the story of the development of the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge,
particularly the Y-12 and K-25 plants and the X-10 pilot-scale graphite reactor.
Rare color footage of construction activities is interspersed with black-and-white
images of community and social life and interviews with people who worked there.
Also, a 9-minute video of some of the earliest known footage of construction at
Oak Ridge is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWnm4N8Wnmk&
feature=channel_video_title.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s history website can be found at http://
www.lanl.gov/history.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a good source of up-to-date information
on weapons deployments, treaties concerning nuclear weapons, and nuclear issues
in general. www.thebulletin.org.
The National Science Foundation Digital Library on the Atomic Bomb at www.
atomicarchive.com contains material on the history and science of the atomic bomb,
and includes links to the full text of the Smyth report and the declassified version of
Bainbridge’s report on the Trinity test.
The office for history of science and technology at the University of California at
Berkeley has created a website exploring Robert Oppenheimer’s life. http://ohst.ber
keley.edu.