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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