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100 Suns Michael Light   29.70
20th Century Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Weapon History: Manhattan Project and the Nevada Test Sit World Spaceflight News   35.95
A Chemist in the White House : From the Manhattan Project Glenn Seaborg   59.95
Adventures in the Atomic Age : From Watts to Washington Glenn Seaborg   16.50
Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man John Coster-Mullen

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 46.95
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report Henry Smyth   23.95
Atomic Fragments : A Daughter's Questions Mary Palevsky   24.95
Atomic Spaces : Living on the Manhattan Project  Peter Bacon Hales   26.95
Atoms in the Family : My Life With Enrico Fermi Laura Fermi   10.50
Bombshell : The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy Joseph Albright

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 9.00
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns Robert Jungk   10.40
British Scientists and the Manhattan Project: The Los Alamos Years Ferenc Morton Szasz

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 65.00
Brotherhood of the Bomb : The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller Gregg Herkin   11.20
Children of Los Alamos Katrina Mason   35.00
City Behind a Fence : Oak Ridge, TN 1942 - 1946 Charles W. Johnson   11.90
Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics Edward Teller   11.20
Creating the New World Stories Theodore Rockwell   28.95
Critical Assembly : A Technical History of Los Alamos Lillian Hoddeson   140.00
Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States' Atomic Bomb Carter Plymton Hydrick   22.95
Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes   12.60
Day of the Bomb K. Bruckner

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 9.65
Decision at Nagasaki: The Mission that Almost Failed Lt. Col. Fred Olivi

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 32.95
Enrico Fermi Physicist Emilio Segre   11.90
Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin Nancy Cook Steeper   15.00
Genius in the Shadows : A Biography of Leo Szilard, Man Behind the Bomb William Lanouette

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 20.00
Harry Gold : A Novel Millicent Dillon   26.95
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb Thomas Powers   14.00
Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall Jeremy Bernstein   14.00
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing (Cornell Paperbacks) Richard Polenberg   19.95
In the Shadow of Los Alamos : Selected Writings of Edith Warner Edith Warner/Patrick Burns   13.97
J. Robert Oppenheimer : And the American Century David Cassidy   19.01
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds Peter Goodchild

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 5.00
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age James G. Hershberg   36.00
Japan's Secret War: Japan's Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb Robert Wilcox   5.70
Los Alamos : A Novel Joseph Kanon   7.99
Los Alamos Beginning of an Era :1943 - 1945 LANL Public Relations   5.95
Management of the Hanford Engineer Works During World War II Harry Thayer   36.00
Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb Stephane Groueff   28.95
Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics Edward Teller   4.00
Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project Nigel West   17.82
Now It Can Be Told : The Story of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves   13.30
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma Jeremy Bernstein   16.50
Paul Dirac : The Man and His Work Abraham Pais   30.00
Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project Rachel Fermi     On-Line Store 85.00
Please God US First John Pennock

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 11.95
Plutonium Metallurgy at Los Alamos Edward F. Hammel

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 29.99
Prompt and Utter Destruction: President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan J. Samuel Walker   16.95
Quads, Shoeboxes and Sunken Living Rooms: A History of Los Alamos Housing Craig Martin   12.95
Racing for the Bomb : General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man Robert S. Norris   16.97
Return of the Enola Gay (2004 Restoration Edition) Col. Paul Tibbets

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 35.00
Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections (Stanford Nuclear Age) J. Robert Oppenheimer   16.97