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).

American historian and professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Merced. 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).

12 manuscript boxes, 6 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 sound tape reel (7.2 Linear Feet)

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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.