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Title: Gregg Herken papers
Date (inclusive): 1937-2017
Collection Number: 2018C14
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description:
12 manuscript boxes, 6 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 sound tape reel
(7.2 Linear Feet)
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).
Creator:
Herken, Gregg, 1947-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2017.
[Identification of item], Gregg Herken papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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).
Scope and Content of Collection
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).
Two other institutions hold papers of Gregg Herken: the National Security Archive at George Washington University and the
Smithsonian.
At the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, collections related to "The Brotherhood of the Bomb" include the Edward Teller
papers, Boris T. Pash papers, Sidney Drell papers, and the Pioneers of Science and Technology Historical Association collection.
Collections related to "The Georgetown Set" include the R. Smith Harris papers and the Robert D. Murphy papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Video tapes
Atomic bomb
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003