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Race for the Atomic Bomb

Oral History
Crawford Greenewalt’s Interview
September 18, 2014
Crawford Greenewalt: My first contact was to go out to Chicago with a very large group of people and I have forgotten how many there were, perhaps fifteen or twenty as I recall, it may have been less than that. That is surely in the record too, where we were all exposed to this Chicago […]
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Walter S. Carpenter’s Interview
September 12, 2014
Stephane Groueff: Recording. Now we are recording the interview with Mr. Walter Carpenter, DuPont, Wilmington, [Delaware]. Walter Carpenter: I usually have great difficulty remembering what I did yesterday. If you could lead me on, I’d be very glad to try to follow. Of course, Mr. Groves, I imagine that he kept pretty good notes and […]
Oral History
George Cowan’s Interview (1993)
August 22, 2014
George Cowan: What you’ve learned from the Russians, for example? Richard Rhodes: The main thing I have learned is that their first bomb was a carbon copy of Fat Man. Cowan Cowan: Well of course. I knew that in 1949, about the middle of September of ’49 because we analyzed the debris from that and […]
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Robert E. Hayes’s Interview
August 19, 2014
Alexandra Levy: All right, we are here today on July 18, 2014 in New Jersey with Robert Hayes. My first question for you is to please say your name and to spell it. Robert Hayes: Robert, R-O-B-E-R-T, E, Hayes, H-A-Y-E-S. Levy: Can you tell me a little bit about when and where you were born […]
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Glenn Seaborg’s Interview
August 15, 2014
[We would like to thank Robert S. Norris, author of the definitive biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man, for taking the time to read over these transcripts for mispellings and other errors.] Dr. Glenn Seaborg: Well, I arrived in Chicago on a rather […]
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Hans Bethe’s Interview (1993)
August 11, 2014
Richard Rhodes: Did David Holloway show you the documents that the Russians published? Hans Bethe: Not the documents, but I got recent documents like [Yulii] Khariton. Rhodes: Ah. They also published what [Klaus] Fuchs gave them. And, I have some of it here. I wanted to show you. You may not be able to comment. […]
Oral History
John Manley’s Interview (1965) – Part 2
August 7, 2014
[We would like to thank Robert S. Norris, author of the definitive biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man, for taking the time to read over these transcripts for mispellings and other errors.] Groueff: So, Dr. Manley, we talked about [J. Robert] Oppenheimer. So, […]
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General Leslie Groves’s Interview – Part 4
July 30, 2014
[We would like to thank Robert S. Norris, author of the definitive biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man, for taking the time to read over these transcripts for misspellings and other errors.] Stephane Groueff: Now, I wanted to ask you one thing that […]
Oral History
Lauchlin M. Currie’s Interview
July 28, 2014
Stephane Groueff: Recording of interview with Dr. Lauchlin Currie, C-U-R-R-I-E; New York, May 13, 1965. Dr. Lauchlin Currie: When the war broke out I was superintendent of the Bakelite Plant at Bound Brook, New Jersey. As a reserve officer then, I got reassigned to work on the proximity fuse program. Groueff: You were in uniform? […]
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Robert S. Norris’ Interview (2013)
July 22, 2014
Cindy Kelly: I am Cindy Kelly and we have our guest, Robert S. Norris. Stan Norris: Right.  Kelly: Do you want to say your name and spell it? Norris: I am Robert S. Norris, R-o-b-e-r-t, middle initial S, last name Norris, N-o-r-r-i-s. It is February 13, 2013. We are here in the offices of the […]