 | Project Y, the Los Alamos Project: 2 (History of Modern Physics, 1800-1950) by David Hawkins
Buy used from: £92.82 450 pages of pure history
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| Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Buy used from: £19.00 well researched 800-odd pages about the history of the bomb
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 | Dark Sun: Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Sloan Technology Series) by Richard Rhodes
Buy used from: £2.52 700 pages on the building of the hydrogen bomb
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| Stalin and the Bomb: Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-56 by David Holloway
Buy used from: £6.24 450 pages on what the Russians were doing
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 | Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb by Stephane Groueff
Buy new: £20.27 / Used from: £17.50 a well written and interesting insight
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 | The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb by Serber
Buy new: £26.55 / Used from: £39.19 excellent physics primer
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 | Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jung
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.51 a fantastically interesting and personal story
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 | The Road from Los Alamos: Collected Essays of Hans A.Bethe (Masters of Modern Physics) by Hans A. Bethe
Buy new: £26.59 / Used from: £18.00 another insight from one of the key people behind the bomb
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| Danger and Survival by McGeorge Bundy
Buy used from: £2.53 a focus on the 50 years following the building of the bomb
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| The Making of the Atomic Age (OPUS) by Alwyn McKay
Buy used from: £5.16 a short book mixing physics and history
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 | Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (Addison-Wesley Series in Nuclear Science and Engineering) by John R. Lamarsh
Buy new: £56.91 / Used from: £54.05 a classic physics text book
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| Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation by Allan S. Krass
Buy used from: £100.00 a more modern non-proliferation perspective
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| The Deadly Element by Lennard Bickel
Buy used from: £7.91 a history from the viewpoint of uranium
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| The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy by Seymour M. Hersh
Buy used from: £0.50 an insightful book about early US help to Israel
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 | Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R.Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man by Robert S. Norris
Buy used from: £56.24 a view from one of the key actors
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 | The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico by Joseph Masco
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £23.21 a different perspective now that the cold war is over
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| Manhattan Project by Stoff
Buy used from: £175.12 another valuable book on the Manhatten project
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 | Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project: Insights into J Robert Oppenheimer, "Father of the Atomic Bomb"
Buy new: £14.92 / Used from: £12.68 the valuable contribution of Oppenheimer (nice to read with the book by Groves)
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 | Remembering the Manhattan Project: Perspectives on the Making of the Atomic Bomb and Its Legacy
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £40.55 another history of the bomb
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 | The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science) by Jeff Hughes
Buy used from: £15.84 more of view from the side of big science - and it was certainly very BIG
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