Olivia Bell English 1102 Anthony Borrero 13, February 2012 Annotated Bibliography

Fermi, Rachel. Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995. Print. 283 pictures of the Manhattan Project, many that are classified and had never been seen by the public. Portrays the governments effort to build the first atomic bomb. Groves, Leslie. Now It Can Be Told. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. Print. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer was the two leading men on the creation of an atomic bomb that took place in Los Alamos. Working under the code name of Manhattan Project, the two men were responsible for the extraction of Uranium, and seeing that the project moved ahead swiftly with not interference. Hales, Peter. Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Print. This is the story of the instant towns, which were set up by the military for the sole purpose of creating the atomic bomb. It tells about the three main sites that were responsible for developing the atomic bomb, secretly and quickly. Howes, Ruth. Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Print. The story of the creation of the atomic bomb, code named the Manhattan Project, had the public perception of consisting of a few male mad scientist, and some political officials, all centered in Los Alamos. The project was much larger than its perception however. It included women in the jobs of physicist, chemist, mathematicians, biologists, and technicians, in labs located from Hanford in Washington, to Oak Ridge in Tennessee. The work also includes what happened to the women after the bomb was created and their feelings on it now, years later. Lawren, William. The General and the Bomb: a Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, director of the Manhattan Project. New York: Dodd, Mea, 1988. A study, based of papers, official documents and journals that proves the real hero throughout the Manhattan Project was not Oppenheimer, rather General Groves.