The Manhattan Project; The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

Cynthia C. Kelly (ed)

ISBN 10: 1579127479 / ISBN 13: 9781579127473

Published by Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 2007

About this Item

Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 495 pp (w/ bibliography & index). A collection of the writings and thoughts of the original participants in the Manhattan Project, a small research program that began in 1939 and resulting in the creation and perfection of the most powerful weapon the world has ever known. With a rich and comprehensive compilation of documents, essays, articles, and oral history.

Seller Inventory # E32573

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Manhattan Project; The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579127479
• ISBN 13: 9781579127473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • World War II

About this title

Synopsis

The definitive collection of writings on the Manhattan Project by the pre-eminent scientists, historians, and the everyday observers who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age.

Begun in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people, including our foremost scientists and thinkers, and cost nearly $2 billion, while operating under a shroud of absolute secrecy. This groundbreaking collection of documents, essays, articles, and excerpts from histories, biographies, plays, novels, letters, and the oral histories of key eyewitnesses provides unique perspectives for the historian and student of history all compiled by experts at the Atomic Heritage Foundation. Photographs throughout depict key moments and pivotal figures. The Manhattan Project gives actual voice to a significant period in history.

About the Author

Cynthia C. Kelly is the president of the Atomic Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the editor of several books on the subject including Remembering the Manhattan Project.

Richard Rhodes is the author of twenty-six books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award.