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CHAPTER TWO. GREAT BRITAIN: REFUGEES, AIR POWER, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF THE BOMB
H. G. Wells, The World Set Free (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1914), is commonly (and properly) cited as the work of fiction that most scarily predicts the atomic bomb. But see also the weirdly appealing The Coming Race (London: G. Rout-ledge and Sons, 1874) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Harold Nicolson’s cringe-inducing (but funny) Public Faces (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1933). On the refugee scientists, Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, and Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, are good; see also Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds., The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930—1960 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969); Jean Medawar and David Pyke, Hitler’s Gift: Scientists who Fled Nazi Germany (London: Piatkus, 2000); and, especially on Klaus Fuchs, the appealing Lansing Lamont, Day of Trinity (New York: Atheneum, 1965).
The literature on the development of bombing strategy prior to the Second World War tends to repeat itself, but outstanding exceptions are, on the United States especially, Michael S. Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), and Ronald Schaffer, Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), and, more generally, Tami Davis Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914—1945 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), and Priya Satia, ‘The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia’, American Historical Review, 111 /1 (Feb. 2006), 16—51. See also Robin Neillands, The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive against Nazi Germany (Woodstock and New York: Overlook Press, 2001), and David R. Mets, The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1999). On Hugh Trenchard, see Andrew Boyle, Trenchard (London: Collins, 1962). On Arthur Harris, see Charles Messenger, ‘Bomber’ Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939—1945 (New York: St Martin’s, 1984), Dudley Saward, Bomber Harris: The Story of Arthur Harris (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1985), and Sir Arthur T. Harris, Bomber Offensive (New York: Macmillan, 1947), and Despatch on Wjr Operations, 23rd February, 1942, to 8th May, 1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1995).
CHAPTER THREE. JAPAN AND GERMANY: PATHS NOT TAKEN
Apart from histories of the atomic-bomb projects generally, four books were useful on the discovery, mining, and properties of uranium: Robert D Nininger, Minerals for Atomic Energy: A Guide to Exploration for Uranium, Thorium, and Beryllium (New York: D Van Nostrand and Co., 1954); Martin Lynch, Mining in World History (London: Reaktion Books, 2002); Robert Laxalt, A Private War: An American Code Officer in the Belgian Congo (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press,
1998); and Lennard Bickel, The Deadly Element: The Story of Uranium (New York: Stein and Day, 1979). Sources on the Japanese atomic project are limited. The best of them are John W Dower, ‘ “NI” and “F”: Japan’s Wartime Atomic Bomb Research’, in John W Dower, Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays (New York: New Press, 1993), 55—100, and Walter E. Grunden, Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005); see also Kenji Hall, ‘Japan’s A-Bomb Goal Still Long Way off in ’45’, Japan Times, 7 Mar. 2003. German atomic-bomb