Links for "Making the Bomb"

Timelines and biographies

• Timeline made by students the first time I taught the class, Spring 1999.
• A fair-sized collection of pictures of physicists.
• A timeline from the U.S. department of energy.
• AtomicArchive.com has a good set of Biographies and a Timeline.

Other links

• The High Energy Weapons Archive A Guide to Nuclear Weapons. Lots of background info. Contains some short historical summaries that might be a nice complement to Rhodes. For example, see Dawn of the Atomic Age and Invention and Discovery: Atomic Bombs and Fission.
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Atomic Energy Insights. "Nuclear energy exists. We believe it should be used to make the world a better place."
• PhysLINK.com. Lots of physics stuff. Not sure much of it is relevant to the class, but if you need to know the values of the fundamental physical constants, go here.
• The atomic traveler. Atomic tourism links. Really. Much interesting info about sites all over the Western U.S., historical background, etc.
• The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association, Inc.. "Preserving, Exhibiting, Interpreting and Teaching the History of the Manhattan Project."
• Nuclear Weapons Links Search Engine & News Site and other stuff.

Links to other lists of links

• Atomic Bulletin Links Page. A very large collection of links from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Atomic Hot Links. A large, uncategorized list.
• Atomic bomb links

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