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Froman, Darol Kenneth, 1906-. Oral history interview with Darol Kenneth Froman, 1976 June 7.

Title: Oral history interview with Darol Kenneth Froman, 1976 June 7.

Family background and early education. Born 1906 in Harrington, Washington. Family moved to Canada 1910, father a farmer. Undergraduate studies at University of Alberta (Professor Robert Boyle). Summer studies at University of Chicago, 1926 and 1927; graduate enrollment from 1928. Comments on teachers, Carl H. Eckart, Samuel L. Hoyt. Work with Arthur J. Dempster; Ph.D. with Arthur H. Compton, 1930. Academic appointments from 1931; lectureship at University of Alberta, 1931-1939. Lecturer and assistant professor at MacDonald College, spent several of the summers in Denver with Joyce C. Stearns (cosmic rays) on Mt. Evans or at Echo Lake; assistant professor at McGill University from 1939. Comparison of the state of physics in Canada and the U.S. Early war work: McGill group on radar (National Research Council support), waveguides; 1941 head of Mt. Evans High Altitude Laboratory; cosmic ray research. 1942 group leader of the U.S. Navy's Radio and Sonar Lab. Comments on fellow scientists (Ed McMillan's knowledge and abilities); views on the war effort. The Manhattan Project, University of Chicago, 1942-1943; the C.P.1 reactor (Volney Wilson); 1943 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), electronics group (connections with the Radiation Lab at MIT); the Trinity test. Postwar planning, comments on Norris E. Bradbury, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves; LASL influence on national policy, Atomic Energy Commission (David Lilienthal); relations with John H. Manley. Comments on controversy (Luis Alvarez-Wendel M. Latimer-Edward Teller); reactor developments, the Rover program. Retirement in 1962; consulting at LASL.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 77 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78553492 View

National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1962. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1962. THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO

Title: National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1962. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1962. THREE, TWO, ONE, ZERO

On the use of atomic power. Pres. Truman, accompanied by Sec. Hull, enters Antwerp harbor aboard the cruiser Augusta, and poses with Churchill and Stalin at the Potsdam Conf. Shows Berlin in 1945, the first atomic explosion in Alamogordo, N.M., and atomic scientists Vannevar Bush, James Conant, and Robert Oppenheimer. Adm. Nimitz confers with aides, bombs are stacked, and B-29 planes bomb Japan. Shows the B-29 plane "Enola Gay," Hiroshima before and after being A-bombed, Nagasaki after the A-bomb attack, famous chemists of bygone years, Adolf Hitler, Ger. book-burning rallies, and fleeing Jews. Alfred Einstein poses circa 1939. Enrico Fermi works on the A-bomb at the Univ. of Chicago. Shows Gen. Groves, "Manhattan Project" director, and atomic research centers at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other places. China's Mao Tse-tung detrains in Moscow and meets V. Molotov and Russ. Pres. Vorishilov. Communists riot in European cities. Winston Churchill delivers his "iron curtain" speech. Russ. delegate Gromyko walks out of the UN; U.S. delegate Austin proposes int'l control of atomic energy. U.S. planes land in Berlin during the Russ. blockade of the city. Shows Korean refugees and war scenes. Employees are inspected as they enter an atomic plant. Shows views of Moscow and Moscow Univ. Dr. Bush and Pres. Truman announce that Russia has exploded an A-bomb. The first H-bomb is tested on Eniwetok. Shows Russian factories and jet planes, U.S. planes at a, SAC base, and U.S. air raid shelters. A teacher leads an air raid drill in a U.S. school. Shows the injured and scarred victims of Hiroshima. Scientists study at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Shows a hospital's radioactive cobalt machine an atomic power plant in Idaho, and churches. Pres. Eisenhower discusses the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Shows Eleanor Roosevelt.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/98493 View

Morrison, Philip. Oral History interview with Philip Morrison, 2002.

Title: Oral History interview with Philip Morrison, 2002.

Philip Morrison had an almost unique experience during the Manhattan Project, participating in many of the central events of building and using the atomic bomb. From late 1942 to 1946 Morrison's responsibilites took him to the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, General Leslie R. Groves' Washington office, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Trinity site, Wendover Army Air Field, Tinian, Hiroshima and Hanford Engineer Works. From these vantage points he had the opportunity to meet and observe many of the intersting persons involved in the Project, and he reflects about these opportunities in the interview.

ArchivalResource: Audio tapes: 4 cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154305417 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Correspondence Files, 11/26/1906 - 1970.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet, 2 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078170 View

Martin J. Sherwin Collection Relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1910-2006, (bulk 1931-2006)

Title: Martin J. Sherwin Collection Relating to J. Robert Oppenheimer 1910-2006 (bulk 1931-2006)

Author, biographer, and educator. Research material gathered for the writing of , including interviews and oral histories, government records, topical files, correspondence, photographs, printed matter, and miscellaneous material. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

ArchivalResource: 26,000 items and 19 microfiche; 69 containers plus 1 classified and 2 microfiche containers; 27.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011004 View

President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960. Longhand Notes Files, 1945 - 1953. Longhand Notes - Presidential, 1944 - 1953: August 10, 1945. Longhand Note of President Harry S. Truman, 8/10/1945.

Title: President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960. Longhand Notes Files, 1945 - 1953. Longhand Notes - Presidential, 1944 - 1953: August 10, 1945. Longhand Note of President Harry S. Truman, 8/10/1945.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/192795787 View

National Industrial Conference Board. Records. 1916-1985.

Title: Records. 1916-1985.

The records of the Conference Board are an important source for understanding the business community's response to most political and socioeconomic issues.

ArchivalResource: 135 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134058 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Shorthand Notebooks, 6/17/1945 - 11/26/1946.

This series contains a set of shorthand notebooks created and maintained for General Leslie R. Groves, Jr. by his his personal secretary Jean Marley O’Leary.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078239 View

Glenn T. Seaborg papers, 1866-1999

Title: Glenn T. Seaborg papers, 1866-1999

Nuclear chemist, public official, and educator. Journals, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, telephone and appointment logs, scientific research, speeches, writings, photographs, biographical material, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting Seaborg's work as a nuclear chemist who codiscovered numerous chemical elements, as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, California, and as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971.

ArchivalResource: 370,000 items; 1,015 containers plus 1 oversize and 4 classified; 407.4 linear feet; 13 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006039 View

Schreiber, R. E. (Raemer Edgar). Oral history interview with Raemer Edgar Schreiber, 1976 February 13.

Title: Oral history interview with Raemer Edgar Schreiber, 1976 February 13.

Family background and early education in Oregon, undergraduate studies at Linfield College, majoring in physics and mathematics (Hershell Howett), 1931; Master's degree University of Oregon, 1932. Research assistant at University of Oregon, graduate studies at Purdue University, from 1935. Ph. D. thesis on Energy Distribution of Neutrons from Fission, 1941. Comments on the research group (Hans Bethe, Karl Lark-Horovitz, Marshall G. Holloway, Charles P. Baker). To Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the Manhattan Project in 1943; construction of water boiler reactor; Holloway's group (Fat Man Assembly) and the Trinity Test. Reflections on wartime climate; discussions of transition and postwar reorganization (Leslie Groves, Norris E. Bradbury), decision to stay at Los Alamos and comments on colleagues at that time (Darol Froman, et. al.). Los Alamos mission in the late 1940s and 1950s. Character of the Lab; H-bomb development (Holloway). Remarks on contacts with other Atomic Energy Laboratories (Livermore). Establishment of Rover Program. Technical associate director from 1962. Comments on retirement. Organization and personnel.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording: audiotape, 1 session.Transcript: 46 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81716334 View

Evans, Robley Dunglison, 1907-. Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2 to 14 June 1978.

Title: Oral history interview with Robley D. Evans, 1972 May 2 to 14 June 1978.

Family background; grows up in California; early interest in electronics. Undergraduate and graduate studies at Caltech. Strong interest in history of science as undergraduate. Ph.D. in physics, 1932. University of California at Berkeley, 1932-1934. MIT from 1934; founder of the Radioactivity Center. Starts first course designated "nuclear physics," January 1935. Strong interest in study of radium poisoning; radium tolerance in humans, cancer research. World War II work, postwar work; establishment of Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering. Markle Foundation supplies funds for the Radioactivity Center's Cyclotron; the 1940 Conference on Applied Nuclear Physics (sponsored by the American Institute of Physics and MIT); World War II work at the Radioactivity Center at MIT; radium dial paint studies; radium and plutonium safety regulations (Glenn Seaborg); work relations with the Manhattan Project; the MAMI (marked mine) project reveals indication of German plutonium project. Also prominently mentioned are: Carl David Anderson, Joe Aub, Joe Boyce, Vannevar Bush, Evan Byers, John Cockcroft, Robert Colenko, Arthur Holly Compton, Karl Taylor Compton, Enrico Fermi, Horace Ford, Ralph Howard Fowler, George Gamow, Newell Gingrich, Clark Goodman, Leslie Richard Groves, George Harrison, Hobart, Elmer Hutchisson, Ray Keating, Arthur Kip, Pinkie Klein, Rudolf Ladenburg, Charles Christian Lauritsen, Thomas Lauritsen, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Gilbert Newton Lewis, Willard Frank Libby, Milton Stanley Livingston, Leonard Benedict Loeb, Sam Lynd, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Robert Andrews Millikan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Elmer Robinson, Ernest Rutherford, John Clarke Slater, Sorensen, Robert Jamison Van de Graaff, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Martin Wittenberg, Jerrold Reinach Zacharias; American Institute of Physics; American Cancer Society, Bausch and Lomb Co., National Research Council, Radiation Standards Committee, United States Federal Cancer Commission, United States Food and Drug Administration, United States National Bureau of Standards, United States Navy, University of Rochester, University of Utah Salt Lake City Project, Wesleyan University, World War I, and World War II.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 105 pp.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83060875 View

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970. Reminiscences of Leslie Richard Groves : oral history, 1962.

Title: Reminiscences of Leslie Richard Groves : oral history, 1962.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 51 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122527716 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Photographs Related to the Aftermath of Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945 - 7/25/1968.

DigitalArchivalResource: 5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078281 View

Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. DEMONSTRATES LATEST ROCKETS [ETC.]

Title: Records of the Office of War Information. 1926 - 1951. Motion Picture Films from "United News" Newsreels. 1942 - 1945. U.S. DEMONSTRATES LATEST ROCKETS [ETC.]

Part 1, rockets are fired on the ground, in the air, and on landing craft. Part 2, Pres. Peron is inaugurated and reviews a parade in Buenos Aires. Part 3, the fuselage of an 8-motor seaplane is hauled to the ocean in California. Part 4, Bidault, Bevin, Molotov, and Byrnes arrive as the Council of Foreign Ministers reconvenes in Paris (June 15). Part 5, European Jewish refugees land in Palestine. Citizens of Amman, Transjordan, celebrate their forthcoming independence from Britain. Amir Abdullah reviews Arab troops. Part 6, Bernard Baruch speaks to the UN Atomic Energy Commission on international atomic control. Shows Gen. Groves and Trygve Lie.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/39119 View

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. [Central State University Music Department present[s] Bastien and Bastienne] [sound recording] / [Mozart ; and, Sunday excursion / Alec Wilder].

Title: [Central State University Music Department present[s] Bastien and Bastienne] [sound recording] / [Mozart ; and, Sunday excursion / Alec Wilder]. [1972]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (ca. 75 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in. + program (1 folded sheet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60458494 View

Parsons, William Sterling, 1901-1953. Papers of William Sterling Parsons, 1943-1953.

Title: Papers of William Sterling Parsons, 1943-1953.

Correspondence, journal of Parson's activities (1951-1952) as commander of Cruiser Division Six, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, articles, newspaper clippings, and other material relating primarily to his role in the development and testing of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project, the bombing of Hiroshima, and Operation Crossroads). Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Vannevar Bush, Robert B. Carney, Karl Compton, Ralph Earle, Jr., George Fielding Eliot, James Forrestal, James Gavin, Leslie R. Groves, David E. Lilienthal, Ernest K. Lindley, and Lewis L. Strauss.

ArchivalResource: 1500 items.3 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82604692 View

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970. Letter, 1946 Jan. 22.

Title: Letter, 1946 Jan. 22.

TLS, dated Jan. 22, 1946, on U.S. War Dept. stationery from Groves to Dean George B. Pegram of Columbia University, concerning Pegram's proposal to establish a nuclear research center in the New York City area (i.e. the Brookhaven National Laboratory).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32749291 View

Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1789 - 1999. General Correspondence. 1942 - 1946. Procurement of Site Y Equipment from Harvard University

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers. 1789 - 1999. General Correspondence. 1942 - 1946. Procurement of Site Y Equipment from Harvard University

This letter discusses the procurement of Site Y equipment at Harvard University for researchers at Princeton University. Persons cited include General Leslie Groves, the officer in charge of the Manhattan Project.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6252802 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Correspondence on the Panama Canal, 1957 - 1964.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078207 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Visitations and Telephone Calls Diaries, 11/19/1940 - 2/28/1948.

This series contains a set of professional diaries created and maintained for General Leslie R. Groves, Jr. by his assistant secretarial staff, his personal secretary Jean Marley O'Leary, and his Liaison Officer for Congressional Investigations, Major Carl M. Sciple. The diaries primarily track visitors and telephones calls for General Groves.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot, 9 linear inches, and 3 rolls of microfilm

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078235 View

Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993. Personal papers, 1948-1992.

Title: Personal papers, 1948-1992.

Crawford Greenewalt's personal papers are primarily focused on his retirement years and his avocational interests. His official business correspondence as president of Du Pont is contained in Hagley Museum and Library Accession 1814.

ArchivalResource: 44 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558916 View

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970. Letter, 1946 Jan. 22.

Title: Letter, 1946 Jan. 22.

TLS, dated Jan. 22, 1946, on U.S. War Dept. stationery from Groves to Dean George B. Pegram of Columbia University, concerning Pegram's proposal to establish a nuclear research center in the New York City area (i.e. the Brookhaven National Laboratory).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154324796 View

Brobeck, William Morrison, 1908-. Oral history interview with William M. Brobeck, 1975 June 19 to 1 February 1976.

Title: Oral history interview with William M. Brobeck, 1975 June 19 to 1 February 1976.

Born 1908 in Berkeley, California. Family background and early education. Stanford University undergraduate studies in engineering, from 1926. MIT Master's Program in Engineering, from 1930. Comparison between Stanford and MIT. Job with Doble Steam Motors (Besler Systems), 1932. University of California Radiation Laboratory (receiving no salary for severher faculty members, 1937-1940. Theoretical Physics Journal Club with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Extensive discussions of the 37-inch cyclotron, planning and building of the 60-inch cyclotron (Donald Cooksey and Brobeck). War research: radio frequency systems, fission work, security at the laboratory, planning and early part of construction of the 184-inch cyclotron, 1941; stopped due to the uranium project. Conversion of 37-inch cyclotron for mass spectroscopy (Frank Oppenheimer). Establishment of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Brobeck's involvement); the Alpha-1 race track breakdown. Postwar reorganization: the use of the calutron, political issues, loyalty oath (Bernard Peters), getting the lab off war work, completion of the 184-inch cyclotron (Alfred Loomis' interest and fund raising; Leslie Groves). Lawrence's weekly meetings with Luis Alvarez, Brobeck, Donald Cooksey, Edward McMillan, and Edward Teller. Comments on Lawrence as a leader. Plans for 10 BeV Bevatron (problems with the name). Comments on the "Rad Lab Style." The Materials Testing Accelerator.

ArchivalResource: 4 sessions.Transcript: 164 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79973202 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Correspondence and Related Records on the Construction of the Pentagon, 9/20/1940 - 1/28/1969.

ArchivalResource: 11 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078206 View

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986. Atomic energy for military purposes, 1945 [typescript].

Title: Atomic energy for military purposes, 1945 [typescript].

The report was first issued in a small typescript edition reproduced by lithoprint. This copy was presented by Gen. Groves to Crawford H. Greenewalt, who served as the Du Pont Company's liaison on the Manhattan Project, on August 28, 1945. Princeton University Press later published the document under its imprint.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516281 View

Records of the Army Staff, 1903 - 2009. Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File for Leslie R. Groves.

Title: Records of the Army Staff, 1903 - 2009. Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998. Official Military Personnel File for Leslie R. Groves.

This Official Military Personnel File includes records from the following folders: Service Documents (November 1918-July 1970); Awards, Decorations, & Commendations (April 1924-August 1948); Efficiency/Fitness Reports (June 1916-February 1948); Medical Records (January 1920-April 1970); Photographs & Negatives (1948).

DigitalArchivalResource: File Unit

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/57287961 View

"March of Time" Collection. 1934 - 1951. "March of Time" Assorted Films. 1935 - 1953. The Harry Truman Administration

Title: "March of Time" Collection. 1934 - 1951. "March of Time" Assorted Films. 1935 - 1953. The Harry Truman Administration

Reel 1: President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession in Washington, D.C. Separate scenes show President Harding and President Calvin Coolidge at the White House in 1923. Truman asks Congress for cooperation. Physicists Vannevar Bush, James Conant, and Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves witness an atom bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico. General Douglas MacArthur signs the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri. Harry Truman meets with Charles Ross, John Steelman and Admiral William Leahy. Reel 2: Strikes cause idle railroad yards. John L. Lewis orders a United Mine Workers strike. Scenes document the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. Shows Senator Taft. Wilson Wyatt becoming Commissioner of Public Housing. Dr. Robert Oppenheimer speaks on atomic control. D.E. Lilienthal heads the AEC. Bishop Sherrill urges civil rights. Truman addresses U.N. delegates in San Francisco. The Senate ratifies the U.N. Charter. Truman, Josef Stalin, Clement Attlee, and Vyacheslav Molotov meet at Potsdam. Andrei Gromyko vetoes a U.N. proposal at Lake Success, N.Y. Sec. James Byrnes outlines U.N. principles. Reel 3: Walter Lippmann advocates British aid. Greek soldiers fight communist guerrillas. Secretaries George Marshall, Averill Harriman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg support the Marshall Plan; Truman signs the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948. Secretary James Forrestal urges compulsory military training. Congress votes funds for a 70 group air force. Israeli and Arab troops parade in Palestine as the U.S. recognizes the newly formed Israel.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/97704 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. General Correspondence and Records, 1941 - 1970.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18558952 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Travel Orders and Related Records, 1941 - 1948.

11 linear inches

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078254 View

Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 22]

Title: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [FEB. 22]

Part 1 shows the battleship Missouri afloat after 15 days mired on a sand bar. The Missouri's band plays on deck. Part 2, Congressman Cecil R. King of Calif. states that the 20 percent tax on theater admissions should be repealed. Part 3, shows millinery styles. Part 4, Gen. MacArthur is serenaded by Japanese school children as he walks on his 70th birthday from his Tokyo headquarters to his staff car. Part 5, shows a closeup of Pres. Truman as he announces his decision to have the hydrogen bomb made. Films of the sun's surface are used to show the effect of fusion. Scientist W.L. Laurence, Bernard Baruch, and Gen. Leslie R. Groves comment on the decision.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99473 View

The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

William J. Pierce Papers, 1930s-1990, 1950s-1960s

Title: William J. Pierce Papers 1930s-1990 1950s-1960s

Professor of law at the University of Michigan; director of the Legislative Research Center; president and executive director of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Biographical and personal materials; subject files relating to his association with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and his work in the drafting of uniform legislation among the states in specific areas.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-0325?rgn=main;view=text View

Pierce, William J. William J. Pierce papers, 1930s-1990 (bulk 1950s-1960s)

Title: William J. Pierce papers, 1930s-1990 (bulk 1950s-1960s)

Files relating to his work with the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; also biographical and personal materials, including correspondence from conservationist Genevieve Gillette and summary of an interview with General Leslie R. Groves regarding post-World War II legislation on atomic energy.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79152874 View

Matthias, Franklin T. (Franklin Thompson), 1908-1993. Papers, 1942-1993.

Title: Papers, 1942-1993.

These are Col. Matthias's personal papers documenting his work on the Manhattan Project. They include original declassified documents from Hanford and a variety of newsclippings and magazine articles collected by Matthias between the time he left Hanford to his death, reflecting his continuing interest in the Manhattan Project and nuclear power.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134211 View

Papers of Morris "Moe" Berg : 1921-1973.

Title: Papers of Morris "Moe" Berg : 1921-1973.

This collection contains the papers of Morris "Moe" Berg, who was a professional baseball player, linguist, lawyer, and international spy. Berg's papers are in the form of correspondence, contracts, telegrams, memorabilia, and clippings. Although Berg was a mediocre baseball player, he is remembered as an emissary for the United States government and as baseball's premiere intellect.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61256973 View

David Goldin Collection. 1932 - 1952. Audio Recordings of Radio Broadcasts of Speeches, Interviews, Combat Reports, Special Events, Public Affairs, and Entertainment for U.S. Troops. 1932 - 1952. GENERAL GROVES

Title: David Goldin Collection. 1932 - 1952. Audio Recordings of Radio Broadcasts of Speeches, Interviews, Combat Reports, Special Events, Public Affairs, and Entertainment for U.S. Troops. 1932 - 1952. GENERAL GROVES

John Wingate interviews Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Goves, who was instrumental in the development and testing of the atom bomb. Questions about the bomb, atomic spies, a shipment of uranium to Russia.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/112823 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Correspondence and Related Papers on the Manhattan Engineer District, 1943 - 1970.

This series contains records and correspondence created by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. regarding the Manhattan Engineer District. Also included in the records is the 1949 King Features comic book "Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom" in which General Groves was an adviser.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078171 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Records Regarding Personal Commentaries, Interviews, and Publication Reviews, 1949 - 1970.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet, 8 linear inches, and 1 audio disk

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078250 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Professional Correspondence Files, 1941 - 1970.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet, 5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078169 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Records Regarding the Genealogical History of the Groves Family and Biography of Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr., 1970 - 1970.

This collection contains the self-publication created by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. concerning his family genealogy and his biography. This publication comes in two formats; the hardcover version is entitled “For My Children,” and the soft cover version is entitled, “Papers of Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves.”

ArchivalResource: 5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078261 View

Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Interviews Conducted by Professor Joseph J. Ermenc of Professor Werner Heisenberg, Doctor Paul Harteck, and Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr., 7/6/1967 - 3/20/1970.

This series contains three volume transcripts of interviews conducted by Professor Joseph J. Ermenc (Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire) of Doctor Paul Harteck (on July 6, 1967), Professor Werner Karl Heisenberg (on August 29, 1967), and Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. (on November 7, 1967). General Groves’ commentary on the Harteck and Heisenberg interviews are attached to those volumes.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078252 View

Robert S. Norris collection, 1898-2003

Title: Robert S. Norris collection 1898-2003

Collection relates to General Leslie R. Groves and the development of the atomic bomb, containing photocopies of government documents, correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, studies, and printed matter, microfilm, sound recordings, and transcripts of interviews. Used as research material for the book by R. S. Norris, (South Royalton, Vt., 2002). Includes photocopies of documents released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man

ArchivalResource: 90 manuscript boxes; (36 linear feet)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1580320r View

Chadwick, James, 1891-1974. Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15 to 20.

Title: Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15 to 20.

Family background; early interest in mathematics; physics at University of Manchester; Ernest Rutherford's influence; early research under Rutherford at Manchester; examination by Joseph J. Thomson for degree; recollections of associates at Manchester, including Niels Bohr; scholarship to Universität Berlin and work there with Hans Geiger; internment during World War I; scientific work at internment camp; return to Manchester; move with Rutherford to University of Cambridge; appointment as Assistant Director of Research at Cavendish Laboratory (ca. 1923); work with Rutherford on artificial disintegration; Rutherford's idea of the neutron; early experimental search for neutron; duties and experiences at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1919 to 1936; Rutherford's personality; Solvay conference of 1933; reasons for leaving Cambridge for University of Liverpool; initial plans, personnel and activities at Liverpool; cyclotron; award of Nobel Prize; encounter with Joliots, also in Stockholm for Prize in chemistry; influx of refugee theoreticians; work on the meson; changes effected by large machines; recollections of announcement of fission; World War II work; involvement with A-bomb project, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and General Leslie Groves; postwar considerations regarding international control of atomic energy; effect of Rutherford's death on Cavendish; return to Cambridge as Master of Gonville and Caius College; circumstances of resignation as Master; appraisal of personal satisfactions. Also prominently mentioned are: H. K. Anderson, John Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Niels Henrik David Bohr, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Albert Einstein, Charles D. Ellis, Walter M. Elsasser, Ralph Howard Fowler, Maurice Goldhaber, Otto Hahn, Walter Heitler, J. R. Holt, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Douglas Lea, Lise Meitner, Stefan Meyer, Henry N. Moseley, Walther Nernst, Giuseppe Occhialini, Mark Oliphant, Maurice H. L. Pryce, Stanley Rolands, Heinrich Rubens, Joseph John Thomson, Merle Antony Tuve, Walke, H. C. Webster, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research of Great Britain, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Ministry of Aircraft Uranium Development Committee (Great Britain), Physikalische-Technische Reichsanstalt, Royal Society (Great Britain), University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge Cavendish Physical Society, and University of Liverpool.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 127 pp.

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Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Records Regarding Document Reproductions Related to the Manhattan Engineer District, 1942 - 1968.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear inches and 1 roll of microfilm

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Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Records Regarding Speeches Made by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr., 10/16/1941 - 5/12/1964.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet, 8 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19078244 View

Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970. Letter and photograph.

Title: Letter and photograph. 1959.

T.L.S. (1959 Feb. 13, Stamford, Conn.) to Paul Shank concerning Grove's views on atomic energy, and an inscribed photograph.

ArchivalResource: 2 items : port.

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Reynolds, Wallace B. Oral history interview with Wallace B. Reynolds, 1975 December 12.

Title: Oral history interview with Wallace B. Reynolds, 1975 December 12.

Background and early education, early technical interests; studies electrical engineering at University of California at Berkeley beginning 1922, extracurricular employment in construction, job with Architectures and Engineers as liaison for construction of Life Sciences and Engineering buildings. Beginning of lifelong association with Ernest Lawrence; budgeting and planning work on 27-inch, 37-inch, and 60-inch cyclotrons with William Brobeck, Donald Cooksey, Edwin McMillan; University of California Radiation Lab's relationship to the physics department, sources and distribution of funds. Effects of war on supply of materials and motivation in the Lab; the Oak Ridge National Laboratory project, organization and administration, Alpha and Beta programs; contacts with Stone & Webster, Tennessee Eastman, Robert Thornton, General Leslie Groves; relationship with government agencies and with the University of California's administration, Bob Underhill, Dana P. Mitchell. Involvement in setting up Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, events surrounding development of the atomic bomb; military and Bell Labs, Sandia Laboratory involvement, government service coordinating nuclear laboratories policy; the Trinity test and wind down of the Oak Ridge project. Return to Berkeley, post war planning with Lawrence for 184-inch cyclotron. Atmosphere prior to establishment of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the transition to AEC management postwar projects, Luis Alvarez' and Lawrence's plan for materials production leading to the Materials Testing Accelerator and Livermore Laboratory; own role, Herbert York, the growth of military and AEC bureaucracies; administrative difficulties in the Radiation Laboratory, the Lab after Lawrence's death.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 85 pp.

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Jennerjohn, Dale J., 1922-. Oral history interview with Dale J. Jennerjohn, [sound recording], 2006.

Title: Oral history interview with Dale J. Jennerjohn, [sound recording], 2006.

Dale Jennerjohn, a Madison, Wisconsin resident, discusses serving as a mechanical engineer in the Army and working with the Manhattan Project during World War II.

ArchivalResource: Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 32 min.); analog, 1 7/8 ips.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca.32 min.); analog, 1 7/8 ips.Transcript : 12 p.Military papers : 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

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Atomic Energy for Industry Conference (1954 : Atlanta, Ga.). Atomic Energy for Industry Conference Records, 1954.

Title: Atomic Energy for Industry Conference Records, 1954.

Records include conference brochure and notes from an address given by Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves.

ArchivalResource: .05 linear feet.

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Libby, Willard F. Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

Title: Oral history interview with Willard Frank Libby, 1979 April 12 and 16.

Early life and education; undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate years, 1927-1940 at the University of California, Berkeley. Growth of Berkeley science; Gilbert Lewis, Wendell Latimer and Ernest Lawrence; development of low-level counters; radiochemistry and discovery of isotopes; cross-disciplinary collaboration; interest in carbon-14; association with Samuel Ruben and Martin Kamen; hot atom chemistry and nuclear isomerism; experiences at Princeton University (hot atom chemistry, development of heterogenous catalysis and research on tritium), 1940-1941; work on the chemistry of the diffusion process during World War II at Columbia University (Manhattan Project). Development of the radiocarbon dating technique at the University of Chicago, 1945-1954; measurement of half-life of carbon-14; Harold Urey's importance to Libby; secrecy policy; collaboration with Aristid von Grosse, James Arnold and Ernest Anderson; improved counting technologies; first contacts with archaeologists; Viking Fund and cross-disciplinary collaboration; communicating ideas; Sunshine Project and fallout; AEC appointment; concluding remarks. Also prominently mentioned are: Samuel K. Allison, C.H. Currier, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Felix Ehrenhaft, R.W. Emerson, Enrico Fermi, Leslie Richard Groves, Douglas Rayner Hartree, Robert Hutchins, Immanuel Kant, Serge Korff, Robert Bruce Lindsay, Theodore Lyman, Henry Margenau, McKeehan, Karl Pearson, Henri. Poincaré, D. Richardson, Ernest Rutherford, Leo Schubert, H.S. Uhler, Arthur Gordon Webster, L.P. Wheeler, Norbert Wiener, Anthony Zeleny; American Physical Society, Harvard University, Institute for Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Niels Bohr Institutet, Process Corporation, University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago Institute for Nuclear Studies, Viking Fund, and Windermere Hotel.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3.0 hr.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 50 p.

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Rea, Charles E. Inside looking inside : memoirs, [ca. 1976] / by Charles E. Rea.

Title: Inside looking inside : memoirs, [ca. 1976] / by Charles E. Rea.

Reminiscences of a St. Paul (Minn.) physician and community leader who was educated at the University of Minnesota, headed medical services for the Manhattan Project during World War II, and maintained a private practice through the 1970s.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Bradbury, Norris Edwin, 1909-1997. Oral history interview with Norris Edwin Bradbury, 1976 February 11.

Title: Oral history interview with Norris Edwin Bradbury, 1976 February 11.

Undergraduate studies in Chemistry, Pomona College (Francis Blacet), 1926-1929; graduate studies at University of California at Berkeley; Ph. D., 1932; comments on faculty and fellow students (Leonard Loeb, Ernest Lawrence). National Research Council Fellow at MIT working on electron attachment, 1932. Comparison of Berkeley and MIT research facilities and faculty: John Slater, Victor Lenzen. Stanford University assistant professor, 1934; Felix Bloch, William Hansen. Built a cyclotron with Bloch; comments on work and relation with Bloch. Electron capture, 1935, and cross-sections of neutrons in cobalt (Enrico Fermi), 1937. Bill Hansen's Rhumbatron; klystron research in full progress by 1937. Contacts between Physics & Electrical Engineering departments. Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground as assistant experimental officer (William S. Parsons) doing ballistic research, 1941. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), 1944, working under George Kistiakowsky on implosion. Comments on work atmosphere, scientists, J. Robert Oppenheimer's leadership. Implications of the Trinity test; Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Became Oppenheimer's successor as director to LASL, 1945. Postwar purpose of LASL, reorganization (Leslie Groves); contract negotiations with University of California (R. Underhill). Comments on the establishment of Livermore Laboratory (Edward Teller, Lawrence, Herbert York), Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories. Relations with. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). H-Bomb development, Edward Teller and Stanley Ulam. Broadening the base of activities, 1954. Budget cuts force firing of 300-400 people in the mid-1960s. Benefits of being a university lab. On patents (Emilio Segrè, Glenn Seaborg, Teller); Sandia Laboratory. Various laboratory contracts and projects.

ArchivalResource: 1 session.Transcript: 118 p.

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

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Argonne National Laboratory. The story of CP-1 [videorecording and sound recording].

Title: The story of CP-1 [videorecording and sound recording].

This film was originally produced in 1967 by Argonne National Laboratory as "The Day Tomorrow Began." It documents the building of Chicago Pile 1, which produced the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on Dec. 2, 1942 using film, photographs and interviews with Arthur Compton, General Groves, and other key participants.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.1 sound disc : analog, 33 13 rpm. mono. ; 12 in.

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Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Publications Files, 1945 - 1970.

This series contains published periodicals and pamphlets, mostly on atomic-related topics, as collected and maintained by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet, 6 linear inches

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Title: Chaplain Leslie R. Groves Collection, 1898 - 1908. Personal Papers of Chaplain Leslie R. Groves, 1898 - 1908.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet, 2 linear inches

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Records of the Army Staff. 1903 - 2009. Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Military Personnel, Defense Department and Other Government Officials, Royalty, and Heads of State. 1964-1974.

Title: Records of the Army Staff. 1903 - 2009. Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Military Personnel, Defense Department and Other Government Officials, Royalty, and Heads of State.

This series consists of black-and-white and color photographs, the majority of which were taken by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographers. The photographs record U.S. and foreign military personnel, Defense Department officials and other U.S. government employees, U.S. presidents and vice presidents, foreign heads of state, royalty, sports figures and entertainers, historical figures, and other notable individuals. The series is a mix of portraits of individuals, including photographs of paintings, and images documenting ceremonial events and visits by U.S. and foreign government officials and military leaders. Among the U.S military officers pictured in this series are Generals Creighton Abrams, Omar Bradley, Claire Chennault, Mark Clark, Lucius Clay, George Armstrong Custer, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., Charles Dodge, James Doolittle, William J. Donovan, Robert L. Eichelberger, Benjamin D. Foulois, Frederick Funston, George W. Goethals, Adolphus W. Greely, Leslie Groves, Alexander Haig, Hugh P. Harris, Lucius R. Holbrook, Lewis B. Hershey, Oliver O. Howard, Lyman L. Lemnitzer, John A. Lejeune, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall, George S. Patton, and Maxwell D. Taylor; and Admirals Samuel Gravely, Jr., William F. Halsey, and Ernest J. King. In addition, there are photographs of the much decorated Colonel David H. Hackworth and of Confederate Generals Jubal A. Early, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Many of the photographs in the series show foreign military officers on official visits, in training, or participating in joint exercises, as well as images of some of the key figures in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Of note are images of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, Air Marshal George Jones, and Generals Joseph Joffre, Alfred Jodl, and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. The U.S. presidents pictured in this series are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Warren G. Harding, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S Truman. Photographs of two vice presidents, Charles Dawes and Hubert H. Humphrey, are included as well. There are also photographs of presidential and vice presidential spouses and other family members, such as Muriel Humphrey and Margaret Truman. Other persons of note represented in the series are Governor Thomas A. Dewey, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, several members of the U.S. Congress, and top government officials. Included are photographs of Senators Prescott Bush, Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Roman Hruska, Daniel Inouye, Jacob Javits, Estes Kefauver, and Edward M. Kennedy; Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson; Secretaries of Defense James V. Forrestal and Melvin Laird; Secretary of State John Foster Dulles; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Allen W. Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; Joseph A. Califano; and Ambassadors Arthur J. Goldberg, W. Averell Harriman, and Joseph P. Kennedy. In addition, there are pictures of cabinet officers Alexander Hamilton, Orville Freeman, Oveta Culp Hobby, Harry Hopkins, and Harold Ickes. The visits of several heads of state, political leaders, and members of royal families are recorded in this series. Some of the individuals pictured are King Bhumibol of Thailand, Chancellors Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt and Ludwig Erhard of West Germany; Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba, French Premier Georges Clememceau, Chinese Nationalist leader General Chiang Kai-shek and Mrs. Chiang, Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi, King Edward VIII of England, King Faisal II of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Norwegian King Haakon VII and Prince Harald, British Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, West German President Theodor Heuss, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda of Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbary, King Hussein I of Jordan, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Lord Ismay, Prime Minister Joseph Leabua Jonathan of Lesotho, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, West German Chancellor Kurt G. Kiesinger, Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, First Secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam, and Thai Prime Minister Thanon Kittikachorn. Included also are photographs of astronauts Frank Borman and John Glenn, physicist Enrico Fermi, lecturer Helen Keller, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and nurse Elizabeth Kenny. Also represented are entertainment figures Sammy Davis, Jr., Samuel Goldwyn, Bob Hope, Jose Iturbi, Al Jolson, and Boris Karloff. Historical personages pictured include American Revolutionary War patriots Tadeuz Kosciuszko and the Marquis de Lafayette, soldier and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, explorer and political leader John Fremont, social reformer Dorothea Dix, Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Philippine leader Emilio Aguinaldo, labor leader Samuel Gompers, and French scientist and army general Gustav-Auguste Ferrie. There are also photographs of French nurse Genevieve de Galard Terraube, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom for meritorious service during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. In addition, there are a few photographs of Native Americans in the series. Of interest are photographs of Army scout Hunting Horse at his 100th and 106th birthday parties.

ArchivalResource: 4 Letter Archives Box, Narrow 2.5 inch 285 Letter Archives Box, Standard

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Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974. Oral history interview with Edward Uhler Condon, 1967 October 17 to 12 September 1973.

Title: Oral history interview with Edward Uhler Condon, 1967 October 17 to 12 September 1973.

Family background; early education; influence of high school physics teacher, William Howell Williams, 1914-1918, and later teacher at University of California, Berkeley; interval as boy reporter. Undergraduate years at Berkeley, beginning in 1921 in chemistry department; Ph.D. in physics, 1926; association with Fred Weinberg. Discovery of Erwin Schrödinger's wave mechanics papers; International Education Board fellowship to study quantum mechanics at Göttingen, 1926. Work on Bell Systems technical journal for six months before accepting lectureship at Columbia University; teaching post at Princeton University; Condon and Philip Morse's Quantum Mechanics, result of Columbia and Princeton courses. Relations with University of California; role in persuading Ernest Lawrence to go to Berkeley from Yale University. Recollections of Michigan summer school. Work at Westinghouse on applications of nuclear physics to industry, including completion of Van de Graaff machine, 1937-1940; setting up Westinghouse research fellowships, 1938; Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference on applications of nuclear physics, October 1940; war work on microwave radar. J. Robert Oppenheimer asks Condon to come to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; tour of Los Alamos with Leslie Groves; reasons for leaving Los Alamos after a few weeks. Work as head of theoretical section of Lawrence's laboratory, August 1943-1945; British scientists. Evaluation of Westinghouse's four million-volt machine. Description of Nimitron, a physical computer, designed for 1939 World's Fair. Discussion of 1928 radioactivity. Reminiscences of Ronald Gurney's later career and his trouble with security. Discussion of postwar events, such as the Quebec Conference, McMahon Act, Moran's book about Winston Churchill. Peacetime development of atomic energy; establishment of the Senate's Special Committee on atomic energy. Directorship of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), 1945-1951. Work on superconductivity; W. Emmanuel Maxwell and John Pelham. Accomplishments at NBS. Hearings in 1948 and 1952 before the Department of Commerce under Truman's loyalty program; Averell Harriman. Director of Research at Corning, 1951. House Un-American Activities Committee hearing, 1954; J. R. Oppenheimer and Bernard Peters; reopening of clearances, loss of Corning position; becomes Corning consultant. Head of Washington University physics department, 1956-1963; Oberlin College, 1962; interest in modernizing teaching; Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), from 1963; editor of Reviews of Modern Physics, 1957-1968; establishment of the National Accelerator Laboratory (Chicago); the UFO story. Comments on his most satisfying and his least satisfying work. Also prominently mentioned are: Raymond T. Birge and Henry Wallace.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 277 pp.

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Norris, Robert S. (Robert Stan). Robert S. Norris collection, 1898-2003.

Title: Robert S. Norris collection, 1898-2003.

Photocopies of government documents, correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, studies, and printed matter, microfilm, and sound recordings and transcripts of interviews, relating to General Leslie R. Groves and the development of the atomic bomb. Used as research material for the book by R. S. Norris, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man (South Royalton, Vt., 2002). Includes photocopies of documents released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.

ArchivalResource: 90 ms. boxes.

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Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-. Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Title: Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Mainly concerns Nix's work at Bell Laboratories. Educational background; recollections of John B. Johnson, Nix's work on barriers for gaseous diffusion plants during World War II; physics seminars at Bell Labs in the 1930s, and the relation of Bell Labs to the international physics community. Also prominently mentioned are: John Bardeen, Joseph A. Becker, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Eugene Booth, Walter Bothe, Walter Houser Brattain, Oliver E. Buckley, James Chadwick, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Pierre Curie, Karl Kelchner Darrow, Clinton Joseph Davisson, John R. Dunning, James Brown Fisk, Harvey Fletcher, Lester Halbert Germer, Stephane Groueff, Leslie Richard Groves, Fritz Haber, Werner Heisenberg, Alan Holden, H.E. Ives, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Mervin J. Kelly, Charles Kittel, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, Linus Pauling, Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, Robert Wichard Pohl, Isidor Isaac Rabi, William Shockley, John Clarke Slater, Gordon K. Teale, Charles Hard Townes, E.C. Wente, Addison Hughson White, Eugene Paul Wigner, Dean E. Wooldridge; Columbia University, Cornell University, Keley Corporation, Manhattan Project, Reviews of Modern Physics, and University of Alabama.

ArchivalResource: Transcript, 50 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78076042 View

March of Time Collection. 1934 - 1951. March of Time Documentary/Newsreel Films Relating to U.S. History, Government, Politics, Culture, and International Affairs. 1935 - 1953. ATOMIC POWER!

Title: "March of Time" Collection, 1934 - 1951. "March of Time" Motion Picture Newsreel Releases, 1935 - 1953. ATOMIC POWER!

On the development and control of atomic power in the U.S. Reel 1 shows ruins of Hiroshima. J.B. Conant, P.C. Keith, C.A. Thomas and J.A. Wheeler discuss problems of atomic control and peacetime uses. Einstein announces the theory of relativity in 1905. Enrico Fermi, H.C. Urey, and E.O. Lawrence work on nuclear fission projects in 1934. Lisa Meisner computes atomic force in 1939. Scientists meeting at George Washington Univ. (D.C.) in 1939 learn that German physicists have split the atom. M.A. Tuve effects a fission. G.B. Pegram, Fermi, and Einstein urge Pres. Roosevelt to request government control. Dr. L.J. Briggs heads F.D.R.'s advisory commission; Dr. Vannevar Bush is chosen head of the National Defense Research Committee. Reel 2, Gen. Groves heads the physical development program. Fermi, at the Univ. of Chicago, effects the first controlled chain reaction. Uranium-235 is processed at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Gen. Groves, Bush, Conant, and J. Robert Oppenheimer witness the atomic explosion at Alamogordo Air Force Base in 1945. Publications are distributed by the Federation of American Scientists and the National Committee on Atomic Information. The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists solicits research funds. Sec. of State Acheson meets with Bush, Conant and D.E. Lilienthal. At a U.N. meeting at Lake Success, N.Y., Bernard Baruch and Gromyko differ on atomic disarmament.

ArchivalResource:

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J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers, 1799-1980, (bulk 1947-1967)

Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers 1799-1980 (bulk 1947-1967)

Physicist and director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, writings, desk books, lectures, statements, scientific notes, and photographs chiefly comprising Oppenheimer's personal papers while director of the Institute for Advanced Study but reflecting only incidentally his administrative work there. Topics include theoretical physics, development of the atomic bomb, the relationship between government and science, nuclear energy, security, and national loyalty.

ArchivalResource: 74,000 items; 294 containers plus 2 classified; 117.4 linear feet

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Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993. Manhattan Project Diary, 1942-1945.

Title: Manhattan Project Diary, 1942-1945.

Crawford Greenewalt's diary describes the history of the Manhattan Project and the development of the United States' first atomic bombs that were used to end the Second World War. The diary describes the technical history of the project, as well as the relationships that developed between scientists (Arthur Compton, Enrico Fermi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Eugene Wigner) and the Du Pont engineers who were responsible for taking their theoretical research and transforming it into a full-scale plutonium production project. The diary shows that by early 1943 Greenewalt had succeeded in convincing Compton to reorganize the Metallurgical Laboratory along industrial lines similar to those at the Du Pont Company's Chemical Department.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

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General Records of the Department of Energy. 1915 - 2007. Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Title: General Records of the Department of Energy. 1915 - 2007. Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

This series encompasses the principal compilation of historical images that document the personalities, structures, technologies, and events shaping the first three and one-half decades at the nuclear research site commonly known as the Berkeley Lab, later officially the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of Berkeley, California. In particular focus is Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the Nobel laureate nuclear physicist, and the founder in 1931 of the University of California Radiation Laboratory that would be renamed in Lawrence's honor following his death in 1958. It was Lawrence whose invention of the circular-shaped particle accelerator, dubbed the cyclotron, opened new frontiers in sub-atomic research, with ramifications--well-documented in this series--ranging from the discovery of the transuranic elements that stretched the boundaries of the Periodic Table, to the development of uranium enrichment methods that speeded the production of the first atomic bomb, to experimental advances that established the field of nuclear medicine. Lawrence is shown in a variety of portrait, speaking, writing, research, meeting, touring, equipment and facility inspection, and ceremonial contexts in and around the Lab and, occasionally, other scientific research locations. Featured, as well, are many of the physicists, chemists, physicians, and engineers who rose to prominence pursuing what Lawrence often called the Lab's "big science" commitment. Included are eventual Nobel laureates Edwin McMillan (successor to Lawrence as Lab Director), Glenn Seaborg (later Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission), Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segre, Donald Glaser, Melvin Calvin, and Luis Alvarez, as well as such key contributors as John Lawrence (Ernest's brother, and coordinator of the Lab's early medical research ventures), Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Robert Marshak, Isadore Perlman, Albert Ghiorso, David Sloan, Arthur Snell, Donald Cooksey, William Brobeck, Robert Thornton, Robert Cornog, Paul Aebersold, Edward Lofgren, David Kalbfell, Martin Kamen, Wilfred Mann, Franz Kurie, and Will Siri. Along with the coverage of scientific luminaries, the series provides a visual record of the Lab's evolving infrastructure on the University of California campus, beginning with the "precursor" 1928-1931 quarters in Le Conte Hall, where a newly-arrived Ernest Lawrence conceived and developed the earliest versions of the cyclotron, and continuing with the Civil Engineering Testing Laboratory, an empty building adjacent to Le Conte Hall where Lawrence formally established the Radiation Laboratory. Documented, in turn, are the newly-constructed facilities into which research operations expanded, including the Crocker Laboratory of late 1930s origin, the Donner Laboratory built in the early 1940s for the growing medical research program, and, most prominently, the massive structure on Charter Hill, constructed during the World War II years to house the 184-inch cyclotron, and serving as the Lab's long-term headquarters. The latter facility receives particularly close photographic attention, from ground breaking ceremonies through phases of construction, completion, and operation. As for subsequent additions, views of the 1964 dedication ceremony for the Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics underline the increasing diversification of Lab research activities in the latter half of the 20th Century. Within these facilities, the multiple versions of the cyclotron, increasingly large and powerful, are prime series focal points. Views of Lawrence's first two cyclotrons, with acceleration chambers measuring five inches in diameter and 11 inches in diameter, respectively, set the stage for more detailed coverage of the 27-inch cyclotron of the early 1930s, and heavier coverage still of the 37-inch, 60-inch, and 184-inch cyclotrons that anchored many of the breakthrough projects of the late 1930s and 1940s. Also photographed is the later-edition 88-inch cyclotron, and the cyclotron's technological successor, the synchrotron, or so-called Bevatron, that keyed Lab research from the mid-1950s through the 1960s and beyond. Overviews and installation views of these mechanisms are accompanied, especially in the case of the 37-inch, 60-inch, and 184-inch versions, by numerous closeups of individual components, large and small, from magnets, dees, coils, tanks, pumps, switches, oscillators, deflectors, probes, and targets to water cooling lines and radiation shielding, and from control panels to pulse transformers to ionization chambers. In the case of the 184-inch cyclotron, photographs also suggest the multiple applications of the technology during these decades: originally designed to produce particle acceleration at unprecedented speeds, the mechanism's 4500-ton magnet was put to work for uranium separation purposes in 1942 in support of the Manhattan Project (cyclotron turned "calutron"); at war's end, the calutron was reconverted to synchrocyclotron status for pure research. In addition to picturing the multiple iterations of the cyclotron, synchrocyclotron, and synchrotron, the series sheds light on other innovative Lab apparatus, such as the cloud chamber, the spark chamber, and, especially, the various versions of the bubble chamber--invented by Glaser, further developed by Alvarez--used to trace and record the trajectories of charged particles in transit. The Lab's wide-ranging experiments are represented visually through conventional depictions of personnel and instruments, as well as through specialized pictorial forms, including renderings of cyclotron-emitted beam patterns, and x-ray images of monkeys and other test animals injected with adenine or related radioactive substances. Among the many photos relating to particular Lab investigations, discoveries, and milestones (or official announcements thereof) are those showing: the first external beam obtained from a cyclotron (1936); the first cancer patient to be treated with a neutron beam (1938); the pioneering experiments, led by Hamilton and Marshak, on medical uses of radiosodium (1939); the equipment used by Alvarez and Cornog for their path-breaking discovery of the isotope helium-3 (1939); McMillan re-creating his search for neptunium on the occasion of the announcement of the element's discovery (1940); the first spectrum ever seen of an artificially created isotope (mercury-198) made from gold (1940); Seaborg engaged in his pivotal, and ultimately successful, search for plutonium in 1941, and, 25 years later, participating in ceremonies dedicating the site of the discovery (Room 307 in University of California's Gilman Hall) as a National Historic Landmark; the first beam emitted by the fully operational 184-inch cyclotron, noted by Ernest Lawrence, McMillan, and colleagues at the control panel (1946); the Lab announcement of the discovery of machine-made mesons (1948); Lab press conferences and other events revealing the discoveries of the elements berkelium (1949), californium (1950), nobelium (1958), and lawrencium (1961); Seaborg, Ghiorso, and Bernard Harvey re-creating the 1955 discovery of the element mendelevium; Segre engaged in the high-priority 1950s Lab project culminating in the discovery of the antiproton (1955); the christening of the 72-inch liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber, largest in the world (1959); and the announcement of the discovery of the first experimental evidence of the existence of omega meson resonance (1961). International and national award-related events featuring Lab scientists receive considerable exposure in this series. In the case of Ernest Lawrence, there are multiple perspectives on his receipt of the 1939 Nobel Prize--a view of Lawrence receiving the official telephone call informing him of the honor, as well as views of the Western Union telegram providing written notification and Lab blackboard annotations providing the "local" news angle--along with a sequence of 1946 photos showing Lawrence receiving the Medal of Merit, from the head of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves, for his wartime contributions. Also represented are the Lab press conferences and other gatherings marking the Nobel Prize announcements for Seaborg and McMillan (1951) for their transuranic element discoveries, Segre and Chamberlain (1959) for their antiproton discovery, Glaser (1960) for his bubble chamber invention, and Calvin (1961) for his tracking of chemical reactions involved in photosynthesis. Alvarez is shown in yet another high-profile award context, namely, receiving the National Medal of Science (1964), from President Lyndon Johnson, for his contributions to high-energy physics. The increasing fame of the Lab, and its key personnel, emerges in another way in this series, via coverages of numerous visits to the facility by political, cultural, scientific dignitaries. Heading the cast of visitors is President John F. Kennedy, shown touring the Lab in March 1962 along with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, California Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, Livermore Laboratory Associate Director and renown nuclear physicist Edward Teller, Atomic Energy Commission head Seaborg, and Berkeley Lab Director McMillan, among others. Documented, as well, are visits by artist Diego Rivera (1940); writer Sinclair Lewis (1940); British physicist Charles Galton Darwin (1941), grandson of Charles Darwin; King Muhammad V of Morocco (1957); Queen Frederika of Greece (1958); Victor Spitsyn, Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences (1960); Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander (1961); U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson II (1961); Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1962); Britain's Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, with the photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon (1965); and the photographer Ansel Adams (1966). Coverage of the Adams visit features a picture within a picture angle, as Adams is shown setting up and carrying out a photo session with McMillan as the prime subject. Visitors are also shown in the context of prominent conferences hosted by the Lab, including such gatherings as the 1960 International Conference on Instrumentation for High Energy Physics and the 1966 High Energy Physics Meeting, with the latter drawing, among others, one-time Lawrence associate, and Manhattan Project scientific director, J. Robert Oppenheimer. While the Berkeley Lab, and the surrounding University of California campus, provides the setting for the vast bulk of the photos in this series, other locales show up in a few shots, including views from Lawrence's 1940 ventures to Purdue University to inspect a cyclotron application, and to Washington, D.C.'s Wardman Park Hotel for a preliminary discussion of the Manhattan Project. Images appearing in this series derive from varied sources. Many of the photographs from the Lab's first decade were taken by Cooksey or other scientific personnel, with scattered Ernest Lawrence shots from his pre-Berkeley days coming from unknown family-related or family-sponsored creators. The majority of the entries from subsequent decades, when a formal Lab photo unit was in operation, come from long-time Lab head photographer George Kagawa, along with staff cameramen Don Bradley, Perry Hamilton, and Doug McWilliams. There are scattered images from the Atomic Energy Commission, White House, and other federal government sources, and scattered items, as well, from commercial media, studio, and other private-sector sources, among them the San Francisco Examiner (photographers Dan Wilkes and William Schoeb, in particular), the Oakland Tribune, Popular Mechanics, Wide World, Pacific Gas and Electric (photographer Richard Hoorn in particular), the San Francisco-based Moss Photography (working for the California Academy of Sciences), and San Francisco Bay area freelance photographer John Brenneis. Several items from an event marking the 40th anniversary of Seaborg's Nobel Prize were generated by Swedish photographers Rolf Adlercreutz and Claes Lofgren of the Stockholm-based firm, Pressens Bild AB. Also included are US Atomic Energy photographs from a Life Magazine Exhibit (1948).

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Speech before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946, 1946

Title: Speech before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946 1946

This is an edited draft of Baruch's speech, which he dedicates on the first page to Herbert Swope, his speech writer, whom he notes is responsible for much of it. It is his exhortation to the Commission, and to the world, for the necessity of controlling atomic energy, and the steps to such control. Signatures of American delegates at the end are by: John M. Hancock, Richard C. Tolman, Leslie R. Groves, Tom Farrell, F. Eberstadt, Fred Searls, Jr., and Baruch. There is also the signature of Herbert Vere Evatt, the Australian delegate.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Item(s), 1 volume, 18 p.

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Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Records Regarding Congressional Hearings, 1941 - 1963.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet, 2 linear inches

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United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. S-1 Files. Bush - Conant File. letter, Bush to Gen. Leslie R. Groves, 11/13/42.

Title: letter, Bush to Gen. Leslie R. Groves, 11/13/42.

ArchivalResource: In folder no. 4.

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Title: Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Personal Papers, 1896 - 1970. Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. Drafts, Working Papers, and Galley Proofs, of "Now It Can Be Told", 1958 - 1962.

This series contains the drafts, working papers, and publisher gallery proofs of the book written by Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. entitled "Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project" and published by Harper and Brothers in 1962.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet, 10 linear inches

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Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974. Oral history interview with Vannevar Bush, 1964.

Title: Oral history interview with Vannevar Bush, 1964.

Interview deals at length with Bush's career and life, with particular emphasis on government work during World War II: the proximity fuze (Winston Churchill, Merle Tuve); cryptanalysis; development of the DUKW; beginning of the National Defense Research Committee (James Conant); Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD); organization of the Manhattan District project (J. R. Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves); A-bomb development (Franklin D. Roosevelt), Alamagordo test; German A-bomb program (Samuel Goudsmit); the V-1 rocket threat (Dwight D. Eisenhower); cooperation between military and civilian researchers; organization of British scientific research (Sir Henry T. Tizard, Lord Frederick Cherwell, Churchill); history and development of the differential analyzer (Charles Babbage). Postwar scientific research; development of National Science Foundation (Harry S. Truman); supremacy of U.S. science; Anglo-American atomic information exchange, U.S. educational system; Committee on Medical Research; patent system; guidance systems; relations between scientists and the military. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Bohr, Karl T. Compton, Lee DuBridge, Werner Heisenberg, Alfred Loomis, Harlow Shapley, Harold Urey; Atomic Energy Commission, Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory, National Academy of Sciences, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institutes of Health, National Research Council, and United States Department of the Navy.

ArchivalResource: .7 cu. ft.

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Greenewalt, Crawford H., 1902-1993. Papers, 1928-1968 (bulk 1942-1968).

Title: Papers, 1928-1968 (bulk 1942-1968).

While the Crawford Greenewalt Papers span the period 1928-1962, most of the material dates from the years between 1942 and 1968 and is primarily concerned with Greenewalt's 14-year presidency. Administrative files document the work of the president and his staff and, for the most part, were generated in anticipation of annual meetings and major policy initiatives. These records document major structural changes and strategic issues. Departmental files document the work of the major operating departments. This series includes annual and quarterly reports, financial statements, and related correspondence. The subject files document a wide variety of areas in which Greenewalt was interested but primarily relate to his work in atomic energy as they describe his involvement with both the Hanford and Savannah River projects. Included are letters from Arthur Compton, General Leslie Groves, and David Lilienthal describing the relationship between nuclear technology and public policy that evolved during the post-war years.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft.

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Groves-Griffith-Chaffin family papers, 1823-ca. 1945.

Title: Groves-Griffith-Chaffin family papers, 1823-ca. 1945.

Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, books / manuals, diary / journal, many biographes. Contains information pertaining to the following wars: Civil War, Late Indian War, World War I (WWI), World War II (WWII). Contains information pertaining to the following military units: 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment; 38th United States (U.S.) Infantry. General description of the collection: Groves-Griffith-Chaffin family papers include service of Owen Griffith in the Civil War; Colonel Richard H. Wilson during the Indian War period and in the Philippines; Leslie R. Groves, and the Manhattan Engineer District; Leslie Richard Groves, Chaplain in World War I, China Relief Expedition.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes.

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