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28. Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 524; Leo Szilard, ‘Reminiscences’, in Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds., The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930—1960 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969), 123—5.
29. Szilard, ‘Reminiscences’, 126—8.
30. Ibid. 128—9; Wyden, Day One, 144—5; Robert S. Norris, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man (South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2002), 526; Arthur Holly Compton, Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), 233—5; Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (New York: Henry Holt, 2002), 133.
31. The Franck Committee Report, 11 June 1945, in Michael B. Stoff, Jonathan F. Fanton, and R. Hal Williams, eds., The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991), 140—7.
32. Szilard, ‘Reminiscences’, 130—2; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 326—7; Martin J. Sherwin, A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (New York: Knopf, 1975), 217-19, 305-6.
33. Barton J. Bernstein, ‘Truman and the A-Bomb: Targeting Noncombatants, Using the Bomb, and his Defending the “Decision” ’, Journal of Military History, 62/3 (July 1998), 561—2; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 304—5; Ralph Bard, ‘Memorandum on the Use of S-1 Bomb’, 27 June 1945, repr. in Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 307—8; Fletcher Knebel and Charles W Bailey II, No High Ground (New York: Harper and Row, 1960), 123.
34. Hershberg, James B. Conant, 226; Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 885; Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 169—70.
35. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 317; ‘Notes of the Interim Committee Meeting, Thursday, May 31, 1945’, in Merrill, Documentary History, 22—38.
36. Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson Jr., The New World 1939/1946: Volume I of a History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (University
Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962), 358; Compton, Atomic Quest, 238-9.
37. In Merrill, Documentary History, see ‘Notes of the Interim Committee Meeting’, 1 June 1945 (pp. 39-48), 21 June 1945 (pp. 94-101), 6 July 1945 (pp. 106-10), 19 July 1945 (pp. 137-44).
38. Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 618-20.
39. ‘Notes of Interim Committee Meeting’, 31 May 1945, in Merrill, Documentary History, 32-3; Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 138, 224, 238.
40. Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 617-18, 624-5; Knebel and Bailey, No High Ground, 74; Norris, Racing for the Bomb, 386-8; Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 197.
41. Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 642-3; Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 197; J. Samuel Walker, Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997), 61; Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 294; Stimson, ‘The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb’.
42. Bernstein, ‘Truman and the A-Bomb’, 558-9; Frank, Downfall, 258.
43. Lansing Lamont, Day of Trinity (New York: Atheneum, 1965), 97-9, 210-11.
44. Sherry, Rise of American Air Power, 202-3; Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, 128-9; Lamont, Day of Trinity, 135, 138-41.
45. Lamont, Day of Trinity, 168-79; Wyden, Day One, 208-12; Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 663-70.
46. Lamont, Day of Trinity, 180-4; Kenneth T. Bainbridge, ‘A Foul and Awesome Diplay’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 31 /5 (May 1975), 40-6; Leslie R. Groves, Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1962), 296-301; ‘Groves: Report on Alamogordo Atomic Bomb Test’, 18 July 1945, repr. in Sherwin, A World Destroyed, 308-14.
47. Lamont, Day of Trinity, 187-8, 192-4; ‘Groves: Report on Alamogordo’, 310.
48. Lamont, Day of Trinity, 186, 195; Hershberg, James