Published Books, Articles, and Reports
Anon, . “Eyewitness Stories of the Bomb Test.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists December 1952: 300.
Asimov, Isaac. Understanding Physics (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993).
Baggott, Jim. The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939–1949 (New York: Pegasus Books, 2010).
Barker, Holly M. Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth).
Bernstein, Jeremy. Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004).
Bernstein, Jeremy. Hitler’s Uranium Club, 2nd Ed. (New York: Copernicus Books, 2001).
Bird, Kai, and Sherwin, Martin J. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (New York: Vintage Books, 2006).
Blatt, John M., and Weisskopf, Victor F. Theoretical Nuclear Physics (New York: Dover Publications, 1991).
Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
Bryson, Bill. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (New York: Broadway Books, 2006).
Butterfield, Herbert. The Whig Interpretation of History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1965).
Cantelon, Philip L., Hewlett, Richard G., and Williams, Robert C., eds. The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 2nd Ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).
Cember, Herman, and Johnson, Thomas E. Introduction to Health Physics, 4th Ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009).
Clark, Ronald W. Bertrand Russell and His World (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981).
Russell, Bertrand. The Life of Bertrand Russell (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976).
DeGroot, Gerald J. The Bomb: A Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Dibblin, Jane. Day of Two Suns: US Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders (New York: New Amsterdam, 1988).
Eisenbud, Merrill. “Monitoring Distant Fallout: The Role of the Atomic Energy Commission Health and Safety Laboratory during the Pacific Tests, with Special Attention to the Events Following Bravo.” Journal of Health Physics 73(1) (1997): 21–27.
Figes, Orlando. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007).
Fink, Carole. The Cold War: An International History (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013).
Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (New York: Penguin, 2001).
Freedman, Lawrence. The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, 3rd Ed. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Friedlander, Gerhart, et al. Nuclear and Radiochemistry, 3rd Ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981).
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (New York: Penguin Books, 2005).
Glasstone, Samuel, and Dolan, Philip J. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd Ed. (Washington, DC: US Department of Defense/US Department of Energy, 1977).
Glasstone, Samuel, and Sesonske, Alexander. Nuclear Reactor Engineering (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1967).
Grace, Charles S. Nuclear Weapons: Principles, Effects, and Survivability. Land Warfare: Brassey’s New Battlefield Weapons Systems and Technology Series. Vol. 10 (London: Brassey’s, 1994).
Hacker, Barton C. Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing 1947–1974 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
Hansen, Chuck. U.S. Nuclear Weapons, the Secret History (New York: Orion Books, 1988).
Hecht, Eugene. Optics, 4th Ed. (New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 2002).
Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945–1950 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980).
Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939–1956 (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Kaplan, Edward. To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015).
Kissinger, Henry A. Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1969).
Kunkle, Thomas, and Ristvet, Byron. Castle Bravo: Fifty Years of Legend and Lore a Guide to Off-Site Radiation Exposures (Kirtland, NM: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, 2013).
Martin, Edwin J., and Rowland, Richard H. Castle Series, 1954 (Washington, DC: Defense Nuclear Agency, 1982.
Meyerhof, Walter E. Elements of Nuclear Physics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967).
Miscamble, Wilson D. The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Nelson, Craig. The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era (New York: Scribner, 2014).
Newhouse, John. War and Peace in the Nuclear Age (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989).
Niedenthal, Jack. For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and Their Islands, 2nd Ed. (Lexington, KY: A Bravo Book, 2013).
Ōishi, Matashichi. The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I (Honolulu: The University of Hawai’i Press, 2011).
Oxtoby, David W., Freeman, Wade A., and Block, Toby F. Chemistry: Science of Change, 3rd Ed. (Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 1998).
Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1986).
Russell, Bertrand. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).
Ryfle, Steve. “Godzilla’s Footprint.” Gojira: The Original Japanese Masterpiece. DVD, Toho.
Russell, Bertrand. Autobiography (London: Routledge, 1975).
Russell, Bertrand. “Man’s Peril.” In The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, ed. Egner, Robert E. and Dennon, Lester E. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961, 729–732).
Serber, Robert. The Los Alamos Primer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
Shurcliff, W. A. Bombs at Bikini: The Official Report of Operation Crossroads (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1947).
Simon, Steven L., Bouville, André, Land, Charles E., and Beck, Harold L. “Radiation Doses and Cancer Risks in the Marshall Islands Associated with Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from Bikini and Enewetak Nuclear Weapons Tests: Summary.” Journal of Health Physics 99(2) (2010): 105–123.
Siracusa, Joseph M. Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Souder, William. “The Link between Castle Bravo and Modern Environmentalism.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 3, 2014.
Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (New York: Vintage, 1985).
Statkiewicz-Sherer, Mary Alice, Visconti, Paula J., and Ritenour, E. Russell. Radiation Protection in Medical Radiography, 6th Ed. (Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby, 2011).
Strauss, Lewis L. Men and Decisions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962).
Symon, Keith R. Mechanics, 2nd Ed. (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1960).
Teller, Edward with Shoolery, Judith L. Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001).
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. “Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation.” UNSCEAR 2008 Report to the General Assembly with Scientific Annexes, Vol. 1 (New York: United Nations, 2010). www.unscear.org/unscear/en/publications/2008_1.html.
US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2010).
Wheaton, James K. You and the Atomic Bomb: History of Nuclear Bombs (Hustonville, KY: Golgotha Press, 2010).
Weisgall, Jonathan M. Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994).