Diana Preston - Before the Fallout

“came to us pointless”: Ibid.

“as raw as a new scar”: Eleanor Jette quoted in P. B. Hales, Atomic Spaces, p. 72.

“two achieved”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 157.

“the fission… doing it”: Bernstein, Hans Beth, p. 73.

“Much of the project’s success… electronic”: The quotes in this paragraph come from the author’s interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“I was Bethe”: Teller, Memoirs, p. 177.

“little bricks”; “work that is detailed”: Ibid., p. 176.

“jutted intensity”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 218.

“marked friendship”: Teller, Memoirs, p. 178.

“Sergeant captain”: Quoted in Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 161.

“The trip… disturbing echoes”: Quotes in these two paragraphs are from Ruth Marshak and Eleanor Jette, in Hales, Atomic Spaces, pp. 71—72.

“self-reliance stubbornness”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 229.

“No course”: Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 193.

“Apparently records”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 166.

“when the dog owners… go free”: Quoted in L. Badash, J. O. Hirschfelder, and H. P. Broida, eds., Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943—45, p. 93.

“it became uncertain living in it”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 230.

“The isolation square dancing”: Segre, Enrico Fermi, p. 139.

“the utterly enchanting landscape”: Author’s interview with P. Morrison, 30 September 2002.

“a wonderful… New Yorkers”: Author’s interview with R. Christy, 17 July 2002.

“nobody crazy”: Quoted in Lanouette, Genius in the Shadows, p. 255.

“Research knowledge”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 96.

“on the basis checked”: Teller, Memoirs, p. 198.

“There was nothing… tough town”: Leona Marshall Libby quoted in Hales, Atomic Spaces, p. 105.

“A physicist… Los Alamos”: Author’s interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“unless… men”: R. Oppenheimer’s letter to E. Fermi, 25 May 1943, Oppenheimer Papers, LOC.

“each man else”: Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 140.

“fought… won”: Teller, Memoirs, p. 172.

“Enrico escort”; “as if… saboteur”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, pp. 212—13.

“for the present… help”: Quoted in Kurzman, Blood and Water, p.51.

“The British were now… bomber”: M. Oliphant’s description of his flight comes from S. Cockburn and D. Ellyard, Oliphant, pp. 114—15.

“like death”: Brown, The Neutron and the Bomb, p. 246.

“the dominant personality”; “a dictator”: J. Chadwick in continuation of a memo by W. Akers of 24 September 1943, AB/1/129, PRO.

“could be told anything”; “it caused no problem”: Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 179.

“I will have bomb”: Quoted in Sime, Lise Meitner, p. 305.

“any means. justified”: Quoted in ibid., p. 58.

“I hoped… will”: Rayner-Canham and Rayner-Canham, A Devotion to Their Science, p. 188.

“the attitude Englishman”: L. Groves, Now It Can Be Told, p. 144.

“I was doubts”: K. Fuchs’s confession to W Skardon, 27 January 19C0, reproduced as appendix A in Williams, Klaus Fuchs.

“I cannot… importance”: R. Peierls’s letter to K. Fuchs of 10 May 1941, AB/ 1 /C74, PRO.

“Dear Fucks”: R. Peierls’s letter of 20 August 1943 to K. Fuchs, AB/1 f gy\, PRO.

“in the Los Alamos reverence”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 222.

“a very warm welcome. cause”: Brown, The Neutron and the Bomb, p. 242.

“We are still waiting for you”: Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 301.

Margrethe Bohr gave an account of their escape to the BBC in an interview for the 1965 program “The Building of the Bomb.”

“I’ve been listening to Bohr”: Quoted in Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 324.

“For many possible”: Segre, Enrico Fermi , p. 319.

“Those poor bastards” “It was.to be”: Lindqvist, A History of Bombing, item 202.

“Are we beasts things”: Quoted in J. Simpson, A Mad World, My Masters, p. 222.

“I want women”: PREM/3/89, PRO.

“Snow we went”: Haukelid, Skis Against the Atom, p. 195.

A report of the visit of Professor Harteck to the Dolomites of November 1943, describing the German interest in producing heavy water in Italy, is among the Geheim-dokumnte zum deutschen Atomprogram, 1938–45, Deutsches Museum.

“We have information aborted?”: Quoted in Kurzman, Blood and Water, p. 210.

“we must expect reprisals”: Ibid., p. 217.

“Matter… Greetings”: Quoted in Haukelid, Skis Against the Atom, p. 186.

“There were carried”: Ibid., p. 188.

“The bitterly cold night. the march”: Ibid., p. 192.

“illicit things”; “It was the bilge”: Ibid., p. 193.

“shaking hands. puzzled him”: Ibid., p. 194.

“looking… way”; “to certify solved”: Author’s interview with Morrison, 30 September 2002.

“an utter failure”: Author’s interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“a most important key”: Ibid.

“His presentation killer”: Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 201.

“over-organised”: E. Teller quoted in Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, p. 539.

“the best proceed”: Author’s interviewr with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“The influx construction”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 206.

“We were not… stay there”: Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 187.

“two very nice negroes”; “transport was still segregated”: Ibid., p. 183.

“incessant action”: L. Fermi, Atoms in the Family, p. 223.

“an attractive, young man… eyeglasses”; “sparingly… words”: Ibid., p. 209.

“‘Penny-in-the-slot Fuchs’… question”: Author’s interview with Bethe, 28 April 2002.

“controlled schizophrenia”; “establish… society”: K. Fuchs’s confession to W. Skardon of 27 January 1950 reproduced in full in Williams, Klaus Fuchs, appendix A, pp. 180–86.

“didn’t mean a damn thing”: R. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, p. 120.

“great pressure them”: Peierls, Bird of Passage, p. 200.

“to interpose… the bomb”: Quoted in Pharr Davis, Lawrence and Oppenheimer, p. 227.

“the Tech Area… at all”: Quoted in Hales, Atomic Spaces, p. 212.

The catalog of experiments on humans is detailed in ibid., pp. 297 - 98.

“We had… monitored”: Author’s interview with Morrison, 30 September 2002. B. C. Hacker’s The Dragon’s Tail — Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942–46 gives fuller details of the radiation safety arrangements at Los Alamos.