National Museum of Nuclear Science & HistoryLetter from the Scientific Panel of the Interim Committee
To the Secretary of War
August 17, 1945
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Manhattan Project History
Manhattan Project History
Chicago Pile-1 Participants
Left to right, back row:
Norman Hilberry, 1899-1986
Samuel Allison, 1900-1965
Thomas Brill, 1920-1998
Robert Nobles, 1917-2007
Warren Nyer, 1922-2016
Hiroshima Log of the Enola Gay
Point: APO 247, Tinian
Time Takeoff: 245
Time Landed: 1458
Position - Time (Military) - Remarks [AHF Notes are in italics]
N. Tip Siapan - 0255 [Northern tip of Saipan, 10 min after takeoff]
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Checklist for Loading Charge in Little Boy Aboard Enola Gay
Check list for loading charge in plane with special breech plug
Confident Gen. Groves
From “The Man Who Made Manhattan” by Robert De Vore
Groves on Making the Bomb
From Now It Can Be Told
by Leslie R. Groves
Conant & the Bomb
From Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age by James G. Hershberg
Rotblat Account
From Leaving the Bomb Project by Joseph Rotblat
Tibbets on Hiroshima
From Operational History of the 509th Bombardment
Stimson on the Bomb
From “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb” by Henry Stimson
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