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"The atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps
to the mountain pass, and beyond that there is a different country." — J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67]
Links About Los Alamos, NM
G.E. Nordell's Travel & Business Links for Los Alamos, NM area
Los Alamos [NM] Historical Society & Museum
The Los Alamos Ranch School's link to the outside world until 1921 was the rail stop of the D&RGW Santa Fe Branch 'The Chili Line' [built 1881-86, abandoned 1941] at Buckman, New Mexico; Buckman was largely abandoned when a new road to Los Alamos was completed in 1924 with a new bridge across the Rio Grande at Otowi, which became the Los Alamos stop.
Links About The Manhattan Project
At its high point, the secret multi-location Manhattan Project had 43,000 workers.
{official} Interactive History of the Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project info at National Atomic Museum
Atomic Heritage Assn. {merging with M.P.H.P.A. below as-of early 2006}
Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Assn.
Manhattan Project entry at Wikipedia
U.S. Department of Energy / Office of Scientific & Technical Information
Interactive History of The Manhattan Project
overview: 1942-45
Establishing Los Alamos, 1942-1943
Early Bomb Design, 1943-1944
Basic Research At Los Alamos, 1943-1944
Implosion Becomes A Necessity, 1944
Oak Ridge and Hanford Come Through, 1944-1945
Final Bomb Design, 1944-1945
Atomic Rivals and The ALSOS Mission, 1938-1945
Espionage and The Manhattan Project, 1940-1945
Links About Trinity Test Site
Trinity Test Site official website
Atomic Tourist page about the Trinity Test Site
'Trinity Remembered' website
Trinity 50th Anniversary pages at Albuquerque Journal
main Atomic U.S.A. Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
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Civil Defense • atomic weapons / nuclear disasters
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for Atomic Cinema (wartime propaganda, documentaries, dramatizations, animated films, etc.) see
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Key Players
The wartime organizational structure of Los Alamos Labs included Robert Bacher's Gadget (G) Division, Alvin Graves's Test (J) Division,
the Nuclear Rocket Propulsion (N) Division, the Weapon (W) Division, and the X Division, which was responsible for the development of the explosive lenses.
physicist Luis Walter Alvarez [1911-88]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez
Robert F. Bacher [1905-2004]: entry at Wikipedia • see also book page
physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe [1906-2005]
head of Manhattan Project's Theoretical Division
entry at Wikipedia •
1967 Nobel Prize • see also book page
outside consultant Niels Bohr [1885-1962]: entry at Wikipedia
Norris Bradbury [1909-97]: entry at Wikipedia
division head during Manhattan Project, chosen by Oppenheimer to be his successor as director of L.A.N.L.
engineer Vannevar Bush [1890-1974]
As head of NDRC and OSRD and science advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bush initiated the Manhattan Project,
and ensured that it received top priority from the highest levels of government.
incomplete Vannevar Bush Store at Amazon •
entry at Wikipedia
more details (short profile, books & ebooks, movies & TV, links) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's engineer Vannevar Bush Page
Vannevar Bush's seminal essay "As We May Think" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, republished in an abridged version in LIFE Magazine in September 1945;
it may seem quaint today, but not too long ago it was required reading for library and information science students; in it Bush envisioned automated information retrieval
and a complex device called the Memex, and for that he has gained a place in internet history.
essay entry at Wikipedia •
available as free online etext at The Atlantic Monthly
Dynamic Diagrams distributed a sample of their product at the ACM SIGIR conference in 1995;
the content was a demo of Vannevar Bush's theoretical Memex system.
watch Memex animation video [11/2009 upload; 2:33] online at YouTube
 | "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of The American Century" [1997] by G. Pascal Zachary The M.I.T. Press 9¼x6 pb [6/99] out of print/used Free Press 9¾x6¾ hardcover [9/97] out of print/used |
Owen Chamberlain [1920-2006]
entry at Wikipedia •
1959 Nobel Prize
Dr. George A. Cowan [1920-2012]: entry at Wikipedia
physicist Haroutune Krikor 'Harry' Daghlian, Jr. [1921-1945]
died of radiation poisoning from a lab accident in Los Alamos
entry at Wikipedia •
AD's Daghlian memorial page
physicist Enrico Fermi [1901-54]
A giant of physics, he helped develop quantum theory and was instrumental in building the atomic bomb.
Fermi worked with the whole Manhattan Project, including a presence in Chicago; at Oak Ridge, Tennessee;
at Hanford, Washington; at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and at the Trinity Test in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Award
Fermilab channel [est. 11/2006]
listed #88 on Atlantic Monthly's "100 Most Influential Americans" (12/2006)
 | "The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of The Nuclear Age" [2017] by David N. Schwartz
Kindle Edition from Basic Books/Hachette [12/2017] for $19.99 Basic Books 9½x6½ hardcover [12/2017] for $23.79 |
physicist Richard P. Feynman [1918-88]
entry at Wikipedia •
shared 1965 Nobel Prize
Richard P. Feynman Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
Robert Furman [1913-2008]: entry at Wikipedia
physicist Alvin Cushman Graves [1909-65]: entry at Wikipedia
worked for the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory with Fermi in Chicago and at the Los Alamos Laboratory;
he and his wife continued working there after the war
physicist Elizabeth Riddle Graves [1916-72]: entry at Wikipedia
worked for the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory with Fermi in Chicago and at the Los Alamos Laboratory;
she and her husband continued working there after the war
John Edmund 'Jack' Gray [1922-97]
After his wartime & post-war work at Los Alamos, he became the project manager (in 1954) for construction of the first commercial
nuclear power plant in the United States, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station [online 1957, shut down 1982] in Pennsylvania.
no entry at Wikipedia • obituary at National Academies Press
 | "Uncle Jack: The Manhattan Project and Beyond" [The World War II Foundation Nov 2016] Written & directed by {nephew} Tim Gray T.M.W. Media Group b&w/color DVD-R [4/2018] for $29.99 bare credits at IMDb • official movie homepage |
Gen. Leslie R. Groves [1896-1970]: entry at Wikipedia • see also book page
nuclear physicist Joan Hinton [1921-2010]: entry at Wikipedia
worked for the Manhattan Project with Fermi at the Los Alamos Laboratory;
moved to Communist China in 1948 and became a peace advocate and land reformer
Donald Hornig [1920-2013]
last-surviving observer of the 1945 Trinity blast
Ernest O. Lawrence [1901-58]
entry at Wikipedia •
1939 Nobel Prize • see also book page
physicist Marie Goeppert Mayer [1906-72]
consultant at L.A.N.L. and other Manhattan Project sites
entry at Wikipedia
Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin: see also book page
physicist Philip Morrison [1915-2005]: entry at Wikipedia
Spirit of America Bookstore's
J. Robert Oppenheimer [1904-67] Page
physicist Isador Isaac Rabi [1898-1988]
personal adviser to Oppenheimer •
entry at Wikipedia
biophysicist Eugene Rabinowitch [1901-73]
Russian-born American biophysicist who worked on the Manhattan Project; co-author with Leo Szilard of the Franck Report;
co-founder in 1945 of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Rabinowitch
physicist & radar expert Norman Ramsey, Jr. [1915-2011]
entry at Wikipedia
Hungarian nuclear chemist Elizabeth Rona [1890-1981]
the foremost expert on plutonium • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rona
British-Polish physicist Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG CBE FRS [1908-2005]
self-described 'Pole with a British passport'; during World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory
on grounds of conscience after it became clear that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb in 1942
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat
physicist Raemer Edgar Schreiber [1910-98]
entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Half-Life of Genius: Physicist Raemer Schreiber" [Gravitas Ventures July 2018] a film about the life and world-changing work of physicist Raemer Schreiber at the Manhattan Project in New Mexico during World War II and later • Co-produced, co-directed & cinematography by Jared Brandon-Flande & John Webb; co-written by John Webb; co-produced & co-written by Sara Schreiber; featuring Jake Hecla, historian Roger Meade, historian Richard Rhodes, Ben Saunders, Sara Schreiber, Carl Willis, Taylor Wilson, with archive footage of Marge Schreiber and archive audio of Raemer Schreiber DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • official movie website |
chemist Glenn T. Seaborg [1912-99]
During the war, Seaborg worked on producing plutonium and other isotopes at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, at the Clinton Engineering Works
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and at the Hanford Engineer Works, in Richland, Washington; he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
with Edwin McMillan for 'their discoveries in the chemistry of the first transuranium elements' •
entry at Wikipedia
Emilio Segrè [1905-89]
entry at Wikipedia •
1959 Nobel Prize
physicist Louis Alexander Slotin [1910-1946]
died of radiation poisoning from a lab accident in Los Alamos
entry at Wikipedia •
MPHPA's Slotin memorial page
physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth [1898-1986]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_DeWolf_Smyth
physicist Leó Szilárd [1898-1964]
worked closely with Fermi and Einstein, and in fact initiated the Manhattan Project (also worked on it)
won shared Atoms for Peace Award in 1959, and won the Albert Einstein Award in 1960
founder of The Council for A Livable World [est. 1962]
'Leo Szilard Online' website •
IMDb listing •
entry at Wikipedia
  | "Day One" tv movie [Spelling/CBS March 1989] The Manhattan Project from the viewpoint of Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard Directed by Joseph Sargent; based on the book {below}; starring Brian Dennehy, Hume Cronyn, David Strathairn {as Oppenheimer}, Michael Tucker {as Szilard}, Hal Holbrook, Tony Shalhoub {as Fermi}, Barnard Hughes & Richard Dysart; won Emmy for Best Drama Special Acorn Media color DVD [11/2007] out of prodn/used Lions Gate color VHS [2/94] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia "Day One: Before Hiroshima & After" [1985] by Peter Wyden Warner pb [8/85] out of print/used S&S hardcover [8/85] out of print/many used |
 | "Genius In The Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind The Bomb" [1992] by William Lanouette & Bela Silard, Foreword by Jonas Salk Kindle Edition from Skyhorse Publng [9/2013] for $9.99 Skyhorse Publng 9x6 pb [9/2013] for $14.28 Charles Scribner's Sons 9¾x6½ hardcover [1992] out of print/40+ used |
"Fallout" graphic novel about Szilard & Oppenheimer [2001] by Jim Ottaviani
http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Jim-Ottaviani/dp/0966010639/
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 | "Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" [2005 novel] by Lydia Millet A shy librarian in Santa Fe, New Mexico discovers that three atomic scientists watching the Trinity Test in 1945 – Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard & Enrico Fermi – have transported sixty years into the future, where they must re-examine their legacy. Harvest 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2006] for $10.20 Soft Skull Press 9½x6½ hardcover [6/2005] for $19.00 publisher bookpage • author website |
British physicist James L. Tuck, OBE [1910-80]
worked on the Manhattan Project in U.S.A., back to Oxford University to 1949, worked at Los Alamos on thermonuclear research, 1950-72.
entry at Wikipedia
physicist Edward Teller [1908-2003]
entry at Wikipedia • see also book page
Polish-American mathematician & physicist Stanislaw Marcin 'Stan' Ulam [1909-84]
worked on the Manhattan Project with Teller & others 1944-67
entry at Wikipedia
"Adventures of A Mathematician" biopic [Samuel Goldwyn Oct 2021]
 | Immigrant Polish mathematician Stan Ulam moved to the U.S. in the 1930s and dealt with difficult losses of family & friends while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer • Written & directed by Thor Klein; starring Philippe Tlokinski {as Stan Ulam}, Esther Garrel, Sam Keeley, Joel Basman {as Edward Teller}, Fabian Kociecki, Ryan Gage {as Robert Oppenheimer}, Sabin Tambrea, Mateusz Wieclawek, James Sobol Kelly, Alberto Ruano, Richard Mason, Camille Moutawakil, Sally Cowdin, Anne-Catrin Märzke Wahls, Philipp Christopher, Lucy Bromilow, Martin Müller, Sonia Epstein, Finbar Lynch, Karolina Romuk-Wodoracka (voice), Vitali Kwillitsch
full credits at IMDb • official movie homepage • movie entry at German-language Wikipedia DVD/Blu-ray not available • Amazon Instant Video [2021] rent HD $3.99, purchase HD $14.99 watch official trailers online at YouTube: 11/2020 trailer #1 [1:49] • 5/2021 trailer #2 with Polish subtitles [2:02] • 8/2021 North American trailer #3 [1:49] • 5/2022 German-language trailer #4 [1:51] |
 | "Adventures of A Mathematician" autobiography [1976] by Stan M. Ulam
Introduction by Daniel Hirsch & William Mathews; Epilogue by Françoise Ulam & Jan Mycielski Kindle Edition from Univ California Press [1991 edition] for $23.70 Univ California Press 8¼x5½ pb [7/91] for $24.95 Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover [1976] out of print/used Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover [1976] out of print/used |
J.H. (John Hasbrouck) Van Vleck [1899-1980] participated in the Manhattan Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hasbrouck_Van_Vleck
John Archibald Wheeler [1911-2008]
worked at the Hanford site;
entry at Wikipedia
physicist Leona Harriet Woods {Marshall Libby} [1919-86]
worked for the Manhattan Project with Fermi in Chicago and at Hanford;
entry at Wikipedia
Post-War Figures
executive leader Rizwan Ali
retired U.S.A.F. colonel; recently-retired director of LANL's National Security Research Center; not listed on Wikipedia
Norris Bradbury [1909-97]: entry at Wikipedia
division head during Manhattan Project, chosen by Oppenheimer to be his successor as director of L.A.N.L., 1945-70
Alan B. Carr: senior historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Rhoades: director Bradbury Science Museum, circa 2002
author & executive Brye Ann Butler Steeves
current director of LANL's National Security Research Center (8/2023); not listed on Wikipedia
official homepage
August 2021 article "8 Spies Who Leaked Atomic Bomb Intelligence To The Soviets" on the History Channel website
Department of Energy / History of The Manhattan Project / Espionage and The Manhattan Project, 1940-1945
"The G.R.U. and The Atomic Bomb" [2002] lists a handful of spies who evaded counterintelligence groups - info on book not found (4/2022)
 | "Spies: The Rise and Fall of The K.G.B. in America" [2009] by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr & Alexander Vassiliev In 1993, former K.G.B. officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States during the 1930s and 1940s; years later, living in Britain, Vassiliev retrieved his extensive notebooks of transcribed documents from Moscow; the authors have meticulously constructed a new, sometimes shocking, historical account based on those notebooks Kindle Edition from Yale Univ Press [5/2009] for $12.99 Yale Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [2/2010] for $20.19 Yale Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2009] for $33.99 |
 | "A Spy's Guide To Santa Fe and Albuquerque" [2011] by former C.I.A. agent E.B. Held Reveals details of the plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, Ted Hall's delivery of atom bomb secrets to the K.G.B., the case of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, and the allegations against Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee Univ NM Press 8½x5½ pb [1/2011] for $14.82 |
atomic spy {to the Russians} Klaus Fuchs [1911-88]: entry at Wikipedia
atomic spy {to the Russians} Theodore 'Ted' Hall [1925-99]: entry at Wikipedia
atomic spy {to the Russians} George Abramovich Koval [1913-2006]: entry at Wikipedia
 | "Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away" [2021] by Ann Hagedorn the chilling story of an American-born Soviet spy in the top secret atom bomb project in World War II Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster [7/2021] for $14.99 Simon & Schuster 8½x5½ pb [DUE June 2022] for $15.99 Simon & Schuster 9x6 hardcover [7/2021] for $15.00 |
atomic spies {to the Russians} Julius & Ethel Rosenberg [executed 1953]
atomic spies {to the Russians} Max [1903-78] & Stuart [b. 1918] & Oscar [1921-2015] Seborer: entry at Wikipedia
Books On The Subject
This section was already large when the "Oppenheimer" movie was released, and the surge in new material
led to the Books Section being cut to its own page in August 2023.
Movies & Television
"The Day After Trinity" documentary film [KTEH-TV/PBS Jan 1981]
  | Co-produced, co-written & directed by Jon Else; co-written by David Webb Peoples & Janet Peoples; narrated by Paul Frees; featuring Hans Bethe, Holm Bursom, Haakon Chevalier, Stirling Colgate, Freeman Dyson, Susan Evans, Francis Fergusson, Elizabeth Ingram, Robert Krohn, Dave MacDonald, Dorothy McKibben, Frank Oppenheimer, Isidor Isaac 'I.I.' Rabi, Robert Serber, Francoise Ulam, Stanislaw Ulam, Jane Wilson, Robert R. Wilson, with archive footage of
Leslie Groves, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Harry S. Truman; nominated for Best Documentary Oscar, won A.C.E. & Peabody awards
Image Ent. color DVD [5/2002] for $21.99 Pyramid Home Video color VHS [8/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch shortened movie in 3 parts [8/2016 upload; total 1:30:02] online at Internet Archive watch Italian-dubbed movie [12/2014 upload; 1:54:45] online at Internet Archive |
"The Manhattan Project" [1986] /tt0091472/
Film is about teenagers who build an atomic bomb and has nothing to do with Los Alamos or World War II.
Co-written & directed by Marshall Brickman; starring John Lithgow
"Infinity" [First Look Intl. Oct 1996]
 | Young Richard Feynman is fascinated with science. He graduates college and marries his high school sweetheart, who is diagnosed with tuberculosis; he then accepts a job with the secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in New Mexico, where he studies nuclear physics as well as any medical research that might lead to a cure for his wife's failing health • Location filming included Los Alamos & Las Vegas, New Mexico and Princeton, New Jersey; co-produced by Matthew Broderick, Patricia Broderick & others; directed by & starring Matthew Broderick; script by Patricia Broderick, based on two books; also starring Patricia Arquette
First Look Pictures color DVD [10/2002] for $7.98 B.M.G. Video color VHS [1/98] out of prodn/used Intrada Records soundtrack CD [10/96] 15 tracks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Manhattan Project" [History Channel June 2002 & May 2020]
Season 8 Episode 20 and Season 9 Episode 21 {sic} of the "Modern Marvels" TV series [1993-2022]
 | Galvanized by German success in achieving nuclear fission, the United States Army embarked on a secret crash program to build a nuclear bomb; the project team successfully constructed three fuel production lines using different technologies and assembled three bombs; one bomb was tested in New Mexico and the others deployed against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Co-produced by Bruce Nash; co-produced, written & directed by Sean Dash; narrated by Lloyd Sherr/Max Raphael; featuring William Lanouette, Dr. Robert Christy, Dr. Edward Teller, Rachel Fermi, Dr. Alvin Weinberg, William J. Wilcox, Gen. Paul Tibbets Ret., Ellen Bradbury, Gregg Herkin, author Richard Rhodes, Joanne Gailar, LANL archivist Roger Meade, Dr. Philip Morrison, Dr. William Madia, Joe Dykstra, James Hackworth, John Isaacson, McAllister Hull, John Rhoades (director, Bradbury Science Museum), Ed Westcott, historian Robert Norris, Hiroshima survivor Hiroshi Takeda, with archive footage of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi, Gen. Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
50-minute A&E Home Video b&w/color DVD [8/2020] for $21.97 episode credits at IMDb • watch S9 E21 {sic} full episode [5/2020 upload; 45:35] online at YouTube watch S8, E25 {sic} full episode [7/2023 upload; 45:32] online at YouTube |
"Manh(a)ttan: Nuclear Family" TV series
[LionsGate WGN America 2014-2016]
 | The top secret Manhattan Project recruits scientists to build an atomic bomb at a secret location in New Mexico. The scientists are told only what they need to know, and they in turn keep secrets from their families. A second season was announced in October 2014, scheduled for broadcast in 2015 • Co-produced & written by Sam Shaw; starring John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Daniel Stern, Ashley Zukermans, Rachel Brosnahan, Katja Herbers, Alexia Fast, Christopher Denham, Harry Lloyd, Michael Chernus & Eddie Shin
Season 1: LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [4/2015] 3 disks for $20.00 Season 1: LionsGate widescreen color DVD [4/2015] on 4 disks for $9.99 Season 2: LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2016] 2 disks for $17.83 Season 2: LionsGate widescreen color DVD [3/2016] on 3 disks for $17.22 series credits at IMDb • official series site • series entry at Wikipedia watch 6/2014 official trailer [1:01] at YouTube |
"The Manhattan Project" [Canada 2018] /tt7440812/
The title of this comedy-drama film derives from the Manhattan cocktail
http://www.manhattanproject-movie.CA/
"The Atomic Bomb: Crash Course History of Science #33" podcast [2019]
 | podcaster Hank Green covers physicists Szilård, Fermi, Oppenheimer, and Teller before, during, and after the Manhattan Project watch 1/2019 episode [12:04] online at YouTube |
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Stageplays, Other Media
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"Doctor Atomic: The Opera" [San Francisco Opera Oct 2005] Focuses on Robert Oppenheimer, his wife Kitty, and Gen. Leslie Groves before and after the Trinity bomb test in 1945. Music by John Adams, libretto by Peter Sellars that quotes from declassified historical documents as well as the Bhagavad Gita, songs of the Tewa Indians, and poetry of Charles Baudelaire, John Donne & Muriel Rukeyser. Premiered in San Francisco in October 2005; restaged for Netherlands TV in June 2007; restaged in October 2008 at Metropolitan Opera in NYC full credits at IMDb • entry at Wikipedia Directed by Peter Sellars, starring Gerald Finley, Kristine Jepson or Jessica Rivera & Eric Owens Opus Arte widescreen color Blu-ray [3/2009] for $26.99 Opus Arte widescreen color DVD [9/2008] for $39.99 Nonesuch symphony CD [7/2009] for $13.99 |
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"Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic" [ITVS May 2008] 92-minute documentary tracing a 'dazzling double-helix trajectory': one thread follows composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars; the second thread recounts the actual historical events Directed by Jon Else • full credits at IMDb Docurama color DVD [2/2009] for $24.49 |
"Doctor Atomic and The Manhattan Project" symposium [Fall 2008]
5-day academic symposium at City University of New York, hosted by Prof. Brian Schwartz; several of the events were recorded
and uploaded to YouTube in following months, and are included here with best info found
"Doctor Atomic: The History, Science, and Scientists of The Bomb" [#1A of 5]
composer John Adams comments, then CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein moderates a panel of historians Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
for "The Making of The Atomic Bomb" [1986], and Robert S. Norris, along with physicists Nobel-laureate Norman Ramsey and Edward Gerjuoy
watch full event [12/2008 upload; 1:14:14] online at YouTube
"The Making of The Opera Doctor Atomic" [#1B of 5]
Peter Gelb, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, speaks about his decision to stage John Adams’ opera "Doctor Atomic" for the first time in New York City;
he then discusses the Met’s production with composer John Adams, director Penny Woolcock, and set designer Julian Crouch; the session includes a video clip
of baritone Gerald Finley, who has sung the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer at the Met and around the world
watch shortened event [5/2009 upload; 1:48:24] online at YouTube
"J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Man, The Manager, The Physicist" [#2 of 5]
The opera "Doctor Atomic" is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, pioneer in quantum mechanics and the key scientist behind the first atom bomb; brilliant, driven,
and controversial, he lost his security clearance during the McCarthy hysteria of the early 1950s. Historians Robert Crease and David Cassidy join physicist Jeremy Bernstein,
a former student of Oppenheimer, to consider Oppenheimer as a scientist and as a man; moderated by NYU Prof. Emeritus Benjamin Bederson
watch full event [1/2009 upload; 1:31:43] online at YouTube
"The Manhattan Project: The Photography" [#3A of 5]
Photographers Rachael Fermi and Esther Samra share images from their book "Picturing The Bomb: Photographs From The Secret World of The Manhattan Project". Fermi, a granddaughter of Enrico Fermi (one of the key physicists of the Manhattan Project) began her quest to document the project after finding a color snapshot of the world's first atomic blast amid family photos in a shoebox; they discuss official and unofficial photographs, as well as work and social life at the various project sites
watch full event [5/2009 upload; 24:59] online at YouTube
 | "Picturing The Bomb: Photographs From The Secret World of The Manhattan Project" [1995] by Rachael Fermi & Esther Samra Fermi, a granddaughter of Enrico Fermi, began her quest to document the project after finding a color snapshot of the world's first atomic blast amid family photos in a shoebox; includes official and unofficial photographs, as well as work and social life at the various project sites Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 10¼x10½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/used |
"The Manhattan Project: Places, People and Power" aka "The Manhattan Project: The Scientists" [#3B of 5]
lead speaker is Harold Agnew [1921-2013], the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, who was involved in almost all aspects of the Manhattan Project
and wrote "Chicago, Los Alamos, Tinian Island, and the Atomic Bomb" []; others speaking are Albert Bartlett, moderator Benjamin Bederson, Robert J. Brown,
Morton Camac, Hans Courant, Roy Glauber, E. Leonard Jossem, Nathan T. Melamed, Murray Peshkin, and Tom Wartik
watch full event [5/2009 upload; 1:21:58] online at YouTube
"Wartime Decisions and The Atomic Age" [#3C of 5]
Controversy has never ceased about the United States’s decision to use nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later.
Were these bombings necessary to end the war? Here moderator Gerald Holton, professor of physics & the history of science at Harvard University, discusses a host of questions
with: Martin J. Sherwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" [2005] and a professor of history
at George Mason University; Harry Lustig, provost emeritus & professor of physics at The City College of New York, who wrote "Did The Allies Know That The Germans Were Not Building An Atomic Bomb?"; and Gar Alperovitz, Bauman professor of political economy at the University of Maryland, author of "The Decision To Use The Atomic Bomb" [1995]
watch shortened event [5/2009 upload; 1:39:09] online at YouTube
"Their Day In The Sun: Women of The Manhattan Project" [#4 of 5]
Ruth Hege Howes, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Marquette University, is co-author of a 1999 book of the same title; she discussed: the various scientific problems that the women of the Manhattan Project helped to solve as well as the discrimination that they faced in their work; their abrupt recruitment for the war effort; anecdotes of everyday life in the clandestine, improvised communities; what happened to the women after the war; and their present attitudes towards the work that they did on the bomb
video of event not found (2/2022) •
watch 10/2016 Ruth Howes interview [2/2017 upload; 16:43] online at YouTube
 | "Their Day In The Sun: Women of The Manhattan Project (Labor And Social Change)" [1999] by Ruth H. Howes & Caroline C. Herzenberg, Foreword by Ellen C. Weaver, PhD The Manhattan Project was not just in Los Alamos - it was, in fact, a sprawling research and industrial enterprise that spanned the country from Hanford in Washington State to Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and the Metallurgical Laboratory in Illinois; the Manhattan Project included women in every capacity Temple Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2003] for $30.95 Temple Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/99] for $58.41 |
"Los Alamos: A Novel" by Joseph Kanon [#5 of 5]
Joseph Kanon, author of bestseller "The Good German", speaks about his murder mystery set at Los Alamos
listen to lecture [8/2014 upload; 44:19] online at SoundCloud
 | "Los Alamos: A Novel" [1997] by Joseph Kanon Wartime Los Alamos, New Mexico is a dusty, remote community of secretly-constructed buildings and awesome possibility, where the world’s most brilliant minds have come together and are joined by an unraveler of human secrets - a man in search of a killer . . .; won Edgar Award for Best First Novel Kindle Edition from Bantam Books [9/2010] for $12.99 Bantam Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2018] for $16.67 Broadway Books hardcover [5/97] for $11.00 Little, Brown & Co. hardcover [5/97] out of print/used |
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