Diana Preston - Before the Fallout

“what purpose lay… behind”: Draft letter from N. Bohr to W Heisenberg (undated), Niels Bohr Archive.

“quite incomprehensible”; “that German physicists… they could”: Ibid.

“less to tell… did not”: Quoted in the New York Review of Books, 17 December, 1964.

“concerning than we”: Quoted in Cassidy, Uncertainty, p. 442.

“We hoped… on a bomb”: 5.-F. von Weizsacker’s letter to the author of 1 o December 2002.

“saw… this idea”: E. Heisenberg, Inner Exile, p. 79.

“As far… on London?’”: Hans Bethe’s contribution to the Niels Bohr Centenary Volume, p. 233.

“was clearly reactor”: Quoted in J. Bernstein, Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy, p. 77.

“It was misunderstanding”: Author interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“Bohr mumbled”: Ibid.

“they seem Bohr”: Quoted in Bernstein, Hitler’s Uranium Club, p. 1 cc.

“Undoubtedly towards them”: A. Bohr’s interview with BBC on 16 January 1965, for the program “The Building of the Bomb.”

“He said Nazis”; “unbelievable naive”: Quoted in Bernstein, Hans Bethe, pp. 74—75.

“entirely filled… victory”: L. Meitner’s letter of 26 to P. Scherrer of 26 June 1940, CCC/LM.

“It was a mistake”: L. Meitner’s letter to M. von Laue of 20 April 1942, CCC/LM.

“I have often wondered nothing about”: M. von Laue’s letter to L. Meitner of 26 April 1942, CCC/LM.

“a specious about it”: Quoted in Gowing, Britain and Atomic Energy, p. 109.

“ I need… this matter”: W Churchill’s note to F.D. Roosevelt of December 1941, PREM/3/139/8A, PRO.

“God’s butler”: Goldschmidt, Atomic Rivals, p. 129.

“disturbed… enemy”: Note of a meeting of 27 November 1941, PREM/3/139/8A, PRO.

“in this ballet… advisers”; “imbued superiority”: Goldschmidt, Atomic Rivals, p. 133.

“radiated…first two”: Bush and Conant files, OSRD, record group 227, M 1932, NARA.

“of superlative destructure power”; “hardly… 100 kg”; “be as important… itself”; “in significant quantity.years”; “adequate care program”: The third report of the National Academy of Sciences committee is contained in Bush-Conant files, OSRD, record group 227, M 1392,NARA.

“We’ll wipe… maps”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 173.

“the fruits quickly”: D. Kurzman, Day of the Bomb, p. 93.

“saving… foreigners”; “the iron…Japan”: Material in the possession of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

“I saw a Singapore”: Quoted in J. Hersey, Hiroshima, p. 12.

“missed bells”: Author’s interview with Takeko Kagawa, Hiroshima, April 2004.

“only future”: Quoted in Bernstein, Hitler’s Uranium Club, p. xxvii.

“Pure force”; “Through force”: Quoted in Irving, The Virus House, p. 99.

“I received… everybody”: Joseph Goebbels diary for 21 March 1942, Diaries 1941—43 , p. 96.

“by no means encouraging”; “the technical prerequisites… support”: A. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 226.

“ridiculously tiny”: Interview given by A. Speer to Der Spiegel, 3 July, 1967.

“no orders decision”; “As a result… period”: W. Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond, p. 183.

“V. B. OK”; “I think… safe”: Bush-Conant files, OSRD, record group 227, M 1392, NARA.

“the whole matter Department”: Letter from Bush to Roosevelt, 9 March 1942, ibid.

“Groves was about to become… soldiers”: All quotes in these two paragraphs are from L. R. Groves, Now It Can Be Told, pp. 3—5.

“I fear soup”: Ibid., p. 20.

“very keen mind”: Quoted in R. S. Norris, Racing for the Bomb — General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man, p. 89.

“This is… budge”: Ibid., p. 53.

“that it involved doing.”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 21.

“It was… wagon”: Ibid., p. 28.

“simple and direct”; fast, positive decisions”: Ibid.

“an even greater venture Columbus”: Ibid., p. 38.

“Do you know… making bombs”: Article by P. Morrison, Scientific American, August 1985.

“Groves, who would have been horrified… all routes: All quotes in these two paragraphs are from Groves, Now It Can Be Told, pp. 39—41.

“that scientists me”; “Who cares?”: Quoted in Ermenc, Atomic Bomb Scientists, p. 47.

“atomic physics science”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. xiii.

“There is wouldn’t it?”: Quoted in S. Groueff, Manhattan Project, p. 35.

“the unique array assistance”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 46.

“My reputation project”: Quoted in Teller, Memoirs, p. 204.

“they were capability”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 47.

“the entirely unpredictable involved”: Ibid., p. gy.

“the Italian… New World”; “How did he find the natives?”; “Veryfriendly”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 198.

It was straw covering: The source for these two paragraphs is E. Fermi’s account in the Chicago Sun-Times on 23 November 19C2 for the first of a series titled The Atom and You.

“about the possible danger catastrophic”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 69.

“dogs that did not bark”: Quoted in Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, p. 78.

“to realise bomb”: Quoted in ibid., p. 88.

“The Best Coup”: British war cabinet report on SOE activities, May 1940, PREM/3/139/4, PRO.

“we have just… be ready”: Compton’s letter to Bush of 22 June 1942, Industrial and Social Branch, OSRD, S-1, NARA.

“a hard blow”: Quoted in K. Haukelid, Skis Against the Atom, p. 6.

“a somewhat possible way”: Quoted in Kurzman, Blood and Water, p. 139.

“astonishingly small”: Haukelid, Skis Against the Atom, p. 112.

“the English bandits this war”: Quoted in ibid., p. 162.

“This is the place”: E. McMillan quoted in Kimball-Smith and Weiner, eds., Robert Oppenheimer — Letters and Reflections, p. 236.

“a lovely spot”: Letter from R. Oppenheimer to J. H. Manley, 6 November 1942, printed in ibid.

“Oppenheimer Groves”: Author’s interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“playing… United States”: Memo from P. de Silva to B. Pash of 2 September 1943, quoted in Norris, Racing for the Bomb, p. 268.

“his potential… security risk”; “He is project”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 63.

“Oppenheimer lieutenant colonel”: Author’s interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.