Contents
ALSO BY BRIAN VANDEMARK
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Preface
PROLOGUE: Nine Physicists and the Discovery of Fission
PART I: A FEARSOME GRAIL
CHAPTER 1: Exodus
CHAPTER 2: The Gathering Storm
CHAPTER 3: The Manhattan Project
CHAPTER 4: The Met Lab
CHAPTER 5: Los Alamos
CHAPTER 6: The Decision to Use the Bomb
PART II: PANDORA’S BOX
CHAPTER 7: Three Fires
CHAPTER 8: An End, a Beginning
CHAPTER 9: The Superbomb Debate
CHAPTER 10: The Oppenheimer Affair
CHAPTER 11: Twilight Years
EPILOGUE: The Atomic Scientists and Today
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
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