Web Excursions
Children of the Manhattan Project -- index to history section
Trinity Atomic Web Site: Nuclear Weapons: History, Technology, and Consequences in Historic Documents, Photos, and Videos -- and mirror site
direct to eyewitness account of first atomic blast. And another.
gallery: testing nuclear weapons, 1952-1962
Brush up on nuclear physics: High-Energy Weapons Archive and mirror site
Carnegie Institution -- funding U.S. science since 1902. Celebrating its centennial.
and a profile of Andrew Carnegie and his contradictions
Rockefeller Foundation -- funding U.S. science since 1913 (note link on its history, which documents projects funded)
healthy propaganda?: Vannevar Bush's Science: The Endless Frontier (1945)
National Science Foundation history
Recommended Further Reading
Goldberg, Stanley. 1992. "Inventing a Climate of Opinion: Vannavar Bush and the Decision to Build the Bomb." Isis 83: 429-452.
Richard Rhodes. 1987. The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
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