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6 Appendices
The homepage of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History can be
found at http://www.nuclearmuseum.org.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of History and Heritage Resources maintains an Interactive History website on the Manhattan Project at http://energy.gov/
search/site/Manhattan%20Project?gid=49.
A project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is dedicated to digitizing films of the laboratory’s atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. Freely available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5zGlJ_OQND5
The Nevada Site Office of the National Nuclear Security Administration offers an
online collection of films of nuclear tests conducted between 1945 and 1962 https://
www.nnss.gov/pages/resources/library/Media.html.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum makes available online a collection of documents, diary entries, letters and press releases relevant to Truman’s
involvement with atomic bombs: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_
collections/bomb/large.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
preservation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project, and works with the Department of Energy and former Manhattan Project communities to preserve historic
resources and other aspects of Project history. www.atomicheritage.org. The Foundation’s website “Voices of the Manhattan Project” features oral histories of Manhattan
Project veterans; http://manhattanprojectvoices.org.
The Federation of American Scientists maintains a website with links to copies
of hundreds of Los Alamos Technical Reports and Publications. http://www.fas.org/
sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/index1.html.
The B-Reactor Museum Association is a volunteer group that works with local,
state and federal authorities to preserve the Hanford B reactor and turn it into a
publicly-accessible museum. http://www.b-reactor.org.
6.11 Appendix K: Useful Constants and Rest Masses
Values are adopted from the National Institute of Standards and Technology; https://
physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/wall_2018.pdf.
Quantity
Symbol
Value
Unit
Speed of light
c
2.99792458 × 10 8
m s −1
Electron charge
e
1.602176634 × 10 −19
C
Planck’s constant
h
6.62607015 × 10 −34
Js
Permittivity constant
ε O
8.85418782 × 10 −12
C 2 (Jm) −1
Avogadro’s number
N A
6.02214076 × 10 23
mol −1
Atomic mass unit
u
1.660539067 × 10 −27
kg
(continued)
6 Appendices
The homepage of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History can be
found at http://www.nuclearmuseum.org.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of History and Heritage Resources maintains an Interactive History website on the Manhattan Project at http://energy.gov/
search/site/Manhattan%20Project?gid=49.
A project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is dedicated to digitizing films of the laboratory’s atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. Freely available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5zGlJ_OQND5
The Nevada Site Office of the National Nuclear Security Administration offers an
online collection of films of nuclear tests conducted between 1945 and 1962 https://
www.nnss.gov/pages/resources/library/Media.html.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum makes available online a collection of documents, diary entries, letters and press releases relevant to Truman’s
involvement with atomic bombs: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_
collections/bomb/large.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the
preservation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project, and works with the Department of Energy and former Manhattan Project communities to preserve historic
resources and other aspects of Project history. www.atomicheritage.org. The Foundation’s website “Voices of the Manhattan Project” features oral histories of Manhattan
Project veterans; http://manhattanprojectvoices.org.
The Federation of American Scientists maintains a website with links to copies
of hundreds of Los Alamos Technical Reports and Publications. http://www.fas.org/
sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/index1.html.
The B-Reactor Museum Association is a volunteer group that works with local,
state and federal authorities to preserve the Hanford B reactor and turn it into a
publicly-accessible museum. http://www.b-reactor.org.
6.11 Appendix K: Useful Constants and Rest Masses
Values are adopted from the National Institute of Standards and Technology; https://
physics.nist.gov/cuu/pdf/wall_2018.pdf.
Quantity
Symbol
Value
Unit
Speed of light
c
2.99792458 × 10 8
m s −1
Electron charge
e
1.602176634 × 10 −19
C
Planck’s constant
h
6.62607015 × 10 −34
Js
Permittivity constant
ε O
8.85418782 × 10 −12
C 2 (Jm) −1
Avogadro’s number
N A
6.02214076 × 10 23
mol −1
Atomic mass unit
u
1.660539067 × 10 −27
kg
(continued)