The devil reached toward the sky: an oral history of the making & unleashing of the atomic bomb

Author's note

Foreword: Dawn at Trinity

Part I Exploring the atom. Particles unseen ; Darkness falls on Europe ; Fleeing fascism ; Adjusting to the New World ; The M.A.U.D. Committee ; December 7, 1941

Part II Imagining a bomb. Setting up the Met lab ; FDR's OK ; Creating the Manhattan Engineering District ; Three big decisions ; Making the pile ; Chain reaction

Part III Making the bomb. Oak Ridge: creating the Clinton Engineer Works ; Oak Ridge: Y-12 ; Oak Ridge: living inside the gates ; Oak Ridge: making U-235 ; Los Alamos: Project Y ; Los Alamos: working on the mesa ; Life on bathtub row ; Oak Ridge: glimpsing plutonium ; Los Alamos: designing the bomb ; Hanford: life in a construction camp ; Hanford: making plutonium en masse ; Hanford: the B Reactor

PArt IV Readying the bomb. Boeing's bomber ; Code name Silverplate ; Training the 509th ; Spring 1945 ; 100 tons of TNT ; Selecting the targets ; The interim committee ; Trinity ; Potsdam with Truman

Part V Unleashing the bomb. At Tinian ; Moving the bomb ; The day before ; Code name Centerboard ; Ground zero in Hiroshima ; Landing at Tinian ; Hiroshima burning ; Reaction to the bomb ; The day after in Hiroshima ; Mission #16 ; Ground zero at Nagasaki ; The return of Bockscar ; Afterward in Nagasaki ; V-J Day ; The sickness

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

A note on sources

Source notes

Index

Image credits.