Oral history interview with Charles DuBois Coryell, 1960.

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Oral history interview with Charles DuBois Coryell, 1960.

Education in California and Germany; political philosophy; Manhattan Project, Chicago and Oak Ridge; security restrictions and problems; relationships with Army and DuPont Company; tension among scientists; emotional and scientific impact of bomb and its use; attempts to inform and influence public opinion and Congress; Smyth report; Europe and Israel sojourn; Robert Oppenheimer case; impressions of many prominent atomic scientists.

Transcript: 441 leaves.

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