General History
The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians – Cynthia C. Kelly (editor), Richard Rhodes (introduction)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report – Henry DeWolf Smyth
Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb – Stephane Groueff
The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb – Jeff Hughes
The 509th Remembered – Robert and Amelia Krauss
Atomic Energy Newsletter – website managed by Jeff Sherman
Alsos: Digital Library for Nuclear Issues – website managed by Frank Settle (08/2019: “We regret that the ALSOS Digital Library for Nuclear Issues site has been forced to close due to security issues. It has been a reliable source for vetted, indexed references for the past 19 years. We are working on archiving its contents in a format that can be made available to the public. -Frank Settle, Director” The Library of Congress holds a copy.)
The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex Map – managed by the Alsos Digital Library
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog – Alex Wellerstein
Learn about nuclear energy – Whatisnuclear.com
Paulwtibbets.com – website of Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets’s grandson, General Paul W. Tibbets IV
The Neutron’s Long Shadow: Legacies of Nuclear Explosives Production in the Manhattan Project – Martin Miller
Manhattan Project in New Mexico
A Guide to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico – Atomic Heritage Foundation
Children of Los Alamos: An Oral History of the Town Where the Atomic Age Began – Katrina Mason
Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos – Lillian Hoddeson
Los Alamos Beginning of an Era: 1943-1945 – LANL Public Relations
Quads, Shoeboxes and Sunken Living Rooms: A History of Los Alamos Housing – Craig Martin
Tales of Los Alamos: Life on the Mesa – Bernice Brode
The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos – Peggy Pond Church
In the Shadow of Los Alamos: Selected Writings of Edith Warner – Edith Warner, Patrick Burns
Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos – Charlotte Serber, Jane Wilson
Los Alamos Revisited: A Workers’ History – Peter Malmgren, Kay Matthews
Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium – www.trinitydownwinders.com
Manhattan Project in Tennessee
A Guide to the Manhattan Project in Tennessee – Atomic Heritage Foundation
City Behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1946 – Charles W. Johnson
Horse Power to Nuclear Power – Donald Trauger
Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II – Denise Kiernan
Manhattan Project in Washington State
A Guide to the Manhattan Project in Washington State – Atomic Heritage Foundation
On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site – Michele Gerber
Keep Your Ducks in a Row! The Manhattan Project Hanford, Washington – C.E. Anderson
Other Manhattan Project Sites
A Guide to the Manhattan Project in Manhattan – Atomic Heritage Foundation
Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project – Peter Bacon Hales
Biographies
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer – Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Brotherhood of the Bomb : The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller – Gregg Herken
Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove – Peter Goodchild
Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin – Nancy Cook Steeper
General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb – Frank Settle
Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, Man Behind the Bomb – William Lanouette
J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the American Century – David Cassidy
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds – Peter Goodchild
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age – James G. Hershberg
Judging Edward Teller: A Closer Look at One of the Most Influential Scientists of the Twentieth Century – Istvan Hargittai
Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma – Jeremy Bernstein
Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man – Robert S. Norris
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) – Richard P. Feynman
The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces: From Hitler’s Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Robert O. Harder
Wilhelm’s way : the inspiring story of the Iowa chemist who saved the Manhattan Project – Teresa Wilhelm Waldof
Memoirs
Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi – Laura Fermi
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project – Leslie Groves
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists – Robert Jungk
Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb: Children of the Manhattan Project – D. Leah Steinberg
The Plutonium Story: The Journals of Professor Glenn T. Seaborg 1939-1946 – Glenn T. Seaborg, Ronald L. Kathren, Jerry B. Gough
Women and the Manhattan Project
Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II – Denise Kiernan
Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin – Nancy Cook Steeper
Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos – Charlotte Serber, Jane Wilson
The Wives of Los Alamos: A Novel – TaraShea Nesbit
The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Prompt & Utter Destruction: Truman and the use of Atomic Bombs against Japan – J. Samuel Walker
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan – Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb – Gar Alperovitz
The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan – Wilson D. Miscamble
Hiroshima – John Hersey
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath – Paul Ham
Atomic Bomb – Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Mark Selden, Kyoko I. Selden and Robert Jay Lifton
The Fall of Japan – William Craig
Japan’s Secret War: Japan’s Race Against Time to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb – Robert Wilcox
Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 – Waldo Heinrichs & Marc Gallicchio
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath – Paul Ham
Atomic Programs in Germany and the Soviet Union
Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb – Thomas Powers
Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall – Jeremy Bernstein
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy 1939-1956 – David Holloway
Espionage
Bombshell: The Secret Story of America’s Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy – Joseph Albright
Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spy – Robert Chadwell Williams
Harry Gold: A Novel – Millicent Dillon
Mortal Crimes: The Greatest Theft in History: Soviet Penetration of the Manhattan Project – Nigel West
The Invisible Harry Gold – Allen M. Hornblum
Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb – Norman Moss
The Alsos Mission – Boris T. Pash
In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies – Howard Blum
The Hydrogen Bomb and Nuclear Testing during the Cold War
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb – Richard Rhodes
The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Super-bomb – Herbert F. York
Hells’ Fire: A History of the Atomic and Thermonuclear Weapons Programs, From Hiroshima to the Cold War and the War on Terror – Lenny Flank
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Specters of the Nuclear Age – Martin Miller