Gregg Herken papers, 1937-2020

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Summary

Creators:
Herken, Gregg, 1947-
Abstract:
Interview recordings and transcripts, notes, correspondence, photocopies of government and other documents, and printed matter relating to the development of the atomic bomb. Used as research material for the book by Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (New York, 2002).The collection also contains research materials on Cold War strategy and espionage, used in Herken's The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (New York, 2014).
Extent:
18 manuscript boxes, 6 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 sound tape reel (9.6 Linear Feet)
Language:
In English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Gregg Herken papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

Interview recordings and transcripts, notes, correspondence, photocopies of government and other documents, and printed matter relating to the development of the atomic bomb. Used as research material for the book by Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller (New York, 2002).The collection also contains research materials on Cold War strategy and espionage, used in Herken's The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington (New York, 2014).

Biographical / historical:

American historian and professor emeritus of modern U.S. diplomatic history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Merced, and Senior Fellow at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Author of The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950" (1981), "Counsels of War" (1985), "Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller" (2002), and "The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington" (2014).

Acquisition information:
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2017 and 2024.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Box 19 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Gregg Herken papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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