Primary Sources: World War II: Manhattan Project

In this documentary from the History Channel: "The scientists and engineers who helped build the world's first nuclear weapon reflect on their accomplishments and legacy."

Compelling firsthand accounts from the inventors of the first atomic bomb describe the Manhattan Project. Additional accounts from scientists, reporters, and soldiers, among other primary sources, describe the development of the bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Selections include those from Einstein, Oppenheimer, Groves, Tibbets, William Laurence, John Hersey, and Enrico and Laura Fermi.

This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the Manhattan Project and the decision to drop the atomic bomb, with more than 80 in-depth articles on a variety of topics and dozens of key primary source documents.

: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project

The Journals of Professor Glenn T. Seaborg, 1939-1946
Edited and annotated by Ronald L. Kathren, Jerry B. Gough, Gary T. Benefiel.

Karl Z. Morgan was a physicist at the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of health physics from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1972.

The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century....