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153 THEN, SUDDENLY, MUSIC: Ibid.; Weisskopf, interview. But one of the oddities in the memories of that moment is how many different scientists heard different music. James W. Kunetka, for example, (1979) heard “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
154 MINUS THIRTY MINUTES: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 9 August 1945.
154 AND THEN, WITHOUT A SOUND: Frisch 1979, 164.
154 IT BLASTED; IT POUNCED: Talk at Boston Institute for Religious and Social Studies, 3 January 1946. In Rabi 1970, 138–39.
155 WHAT WAS THAT?: Peierls 1985, 202; Feynman 1975, 131. The correspondent was William L. Laurence. Eventually he came to terms with the sound he heard: “Then out of the great silence came a mighty thunder … the blast from thousands of blockbusters going off simultaneously … the big boom … earthquake … the first cry of a newborn world.” Laurence 1959, 117.
155 ENRICO FERMI, CLOSER TO THE BLAST: E.g., Kunetka 1979, 169.
155 ANOTHER PHYSICIST THOUGHT FEYNMAN: Jette 1977, 105.
155 NOW HE HAD BEEN DRIVEN SO LOW: Frisch 1979, 155.
156 A CHILL, WHICH WAS NOT THE MORNING COLD: Quoted in Rhodes 1987, 675.
156 IT’S A TERRIBLE THING THAT WE MADE: SYJ, 118.
156 WE JUMPED UP AND DOWN: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 9 August 1945.
157 IT IS A WONDERFUL SIGHT: Ibid.
157 WE BECAME THEN: R. Wilson 1972, 475.
157 HAVE THEM DESCRIBE TO YOU: F-W, 328; Wilson, interview.
157 HE DID GATHER INFORMATION: F-W, 329.
157 WE ALL CAME TO MEET THIS BRASH CHAMPION: Morrison 1988, 42; also Morrison, oral-history interview, 7 February 1967, AIP, 34: “He was already heralded as this very clever fellow from Princeton who knew everything. And he did know everything, you know.”
157 FEYNMAN SAW THAT THE PROBLEM: F-W, 330.
158 SCHWINGER, WHO WAS AMBIDEXTROUS: Bernard Feld, quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
158 SOMEDAY WHEN THEY MAKE A MOVING PICTURE: F-W, 332; Olum, interview.
159 OPPENHEIMER’S FORMULA: Peierls, quoted in Heilbron and Seidel 1989, 256. 159 A PHYSICS OF BANK SHOTS: Rhodes 1987, 149.
159 WHY DON’T YOU HAVE FISH: Peierls 1985, 190.
159 HE CALLED LONG-DISTANCE: F-W, 337.
160 NOBODY COULD THINK STRAIGHT: Davis 1968, 163.
160 THE STATE OF SECRECY WAS SUCH: F-W, 332.
160 FEYNMAN’S CONTRARIETY WARRED: Feynman 1975, 108.
160 SHE HAD BEGGED RICHARD: Arline Feynman to Feynman, 26 March 1943, PERS.
160 ARLINE CRIED NIGHT AFTER NIGHT: Ibid. and Arline Feynman to Feynman, 19 March 1943, PERS.
161 YET ONE POSSIBILITY WAS PLAYING ITSELF OUT: F-H, 5.
161 AT FIRST THE ONLY TELEPHONE LINK: John H. Manley, “A New Laboratory Is Born,” in Badash et al. 1980, 31.
161 WATER BOILER: Hawkins et al. 1983, 104–5; F-H, 4–6.
162 A TABLE BEHIND A HEAVY CONCRETE WALL: Groueff 1967, 210.
162 THE DRIVER’S LICENSE OF A NAMELESS ENGINEER: State of New Mexico Operator’s License no. 185, 1944, PERS.
162 WELCOME TO LOS ALAMOS: Frisch 1979, 150.
163 TALKS ARE NOT NECESSARILY ON THINGS: Notebook, “A-83–002 7–7,” LANL.
163 REFLECT NEUTRONS … KEEP BOMB IN: Ibid.
164 MOST OF WHAT WAS TO BE DONE: Feynman 1944.
164 THE GHOSTWRITER WAS FEYNMAN: Smyth to Oppenheimer, 1 February 1945, and Oppenheimer to Smyth, 14 April 1945, LANL.
164 FEYNMAN, GIVING SMYTH A TOUR: SYJ, 118; Groueff 1967, 326.
164 A REQUEST FOR OSMIUM: Groueff 1967, 326.
164 THE FIRST DOT OF PLUTONIUM: Hawkins et al. 1983, 72.
165 LISTED THE MAIN QUESTIONS: Feynman 1944. Feynman’s references to tamper materials, along with some other sensitive technical details, were deleted from the report as published.
165 WHEN THEY HEARD THAT LAUGH: E.g., Joseph O. Hirschfelder, “Scientific-Technological Miracle at Los Alamos,” in Badash et al. 1980, 81.
165 BETHE AND FEYNMAN—STRANGE PAIR: Frisch 1979, 154.
165 YOU’RE CRAZY: F-W, 339; Bethe, interview; Groueff 1967, 205.
166 IF FEYNMAN SAYS IT THREE TIMES: Schweber, forthcoming.
166 He had worked on: Groueff 1967, 207.
166 A WESTERN UNION KIDDIEGRAM: Rhodes 1987, 416.
166 BETHE HAD LEARNED HIS PHYSICS: Bernstein 1980, 29.
166 AT ROME: L. Fermi 1954, 217.
166 LIGHTNESS OF APPROACH: Bernstein 1980, 31.
168 BETHE