Black Dog and Leventhal
Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — December 2007
The Manhattan project; the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians.
Ed. by Cynthia C. Kelly.
Black Dog and Leventhal, ©2007 495 p. $24.95 QC773
978-1-57912-747-3
This anthology collects a variety of materials on the history of the Manhattan Project, the secret American program to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. Kelly (president, Atomic Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC) presents first hand accounts, oral histories, primary source documents, historical writings, and reflections by politicians that together shed light on the origins of the program, the science and personalities behind the bomb, the political decision-making that guided the bomb's development and the decision to use it, intelligence and counterintelligence matters, and reactions to the opening years of the atomic era. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
