Reminiscences of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge : oral history, 1960.

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Reminiscences of Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge : oral history, 1960.

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Education and early research at Massachussets Institute of Technology, Princeton, and the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England; teaching and research at Harvard, 1934; creation of National Defense Research Committee Radiation Laboratory at Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1940; technical mission to England on radar development, 1941; Los Alamos, 1943: security problems, testing first atom bomb, 1945; use of the bomb; May-Johnson and MacMahon bills; Federation of Atomic Scientists, Joseph McCarthy investigations. Impression of Karl Compton, Henry D. Smyth, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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