NEW atomic history releases
The Manhattan Project: the Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians
Cynthia C. Kelly, editor;
Richard Rhodes, introduction
A rich compilation of historical documents, oral histories, biographies, and more. Unique in scope.
 American Prometheus: the Truimph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
A portrait of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb,
discusses his role in the twentieth-century scientific world, as well as his
roles as family man and head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
 Plutonium 49: a History of the World's Most Dangerous Element, Jeremy Bernstein
The history of plutonium is as strange as the element itself. Bernstein describes the steps that were taken to transform plutonium from a laboratory novelty into the main ingredient of a powerful nuclear weapon.
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Los Alamos before and after the atomic age
The future of Los Alamos, a quiet hilltop village with a thriving boys school and summer grazing lands for local ranchers, changed dramatically in the early 1940s, when it became the home of Project Y, more commonly known as the Manhattan Project.
Personalities as diverse as Hans Bethe, Gen. Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the young Richard Feyman would call this remote, stunning landscape home while they raced to design, test, and build the atomic weapon that would abruptly end World War II.
The books below are just a small sampling of the extensive inventory we carry.
History of Los Alamos and Manhattan Project social history
Los Alamos, The Ranch School Years 1917-1943, John D. Wirth and Linda Harvey Aldrich
When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School, Fermor S. Church and Peggy Pond Church
Inventing Los Alamos: the Growth of an Atomic Community, Jon Hunner
A Boy on the Hill, Raymond Bences Gonzales
Children of Los Alamos, Katrina R. Mason
They Changed the World: People of the Manhattan Project, A. J. Melnick
Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project, Ruth H. Howes and Caroline C. Herzenberg
Life Within Limits, Eleanor Stone Roensch
Rider of the Pale Horse, McAllister Hull
Twilight Time, Ralph C. Sparks
The Woman at Otowi Crossing, Frank Waters (fiction)
The House at Otowi Bridge: the Story of Edith Warner, Peggy Pond Church
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Inside Box 1663, Eleanor Jette
Lady of the Canyon: Evelyn Cecil Frey, Mary Burchill
Gatekeeper to Los Alamos, Nancy Cook Steeper
The Manhattan Project
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun: Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Richard Rhodes
109 East Palace, Jennet Conant
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, a Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, Robert Jungk
Now It Can Be Told, the Story of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie M. Groves
Critical Assembly, a Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, Lillian Hoddeson and others
Los Alamos and the Development of the Atomic Bomb, Robert W. Seidel
Manhattan Project: the Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb, Stephane Groueff
Remembering the Manhattan Project: Perspectives on the Making of the Atomic Bomb and Its Legacy, Cynthia C. Kelly (editor)
Brotherhood of the Bomb: the Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller, Gregg Herken
The Day the Sun Rose Twice, the Story of Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion July 16, 1945 , Ferenc Morton Szasz
The Bomb, a Life, Gerard J. DeGroot
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