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All in our time. The Reminiscences of twelve nuclear pioneers (1975)

Author	Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Date	1975
Classification	6.01.0.40/57 (HISTORY / DEVELOPMENT NUCLEAR ENERGY)
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ALL IN OUR TIME
an introduction

JANE WILSON

The first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. It was 
an apocalyptic event, reshaping attitudes toward war and peace and the conduct of 
nations. It changed government's stance in relation to nuclear physics. It affected the 
lives, private and professional, of the scientists who made the bomb. No technological 
event in all of history could rival it for sheer stark drama.
Here, in a series of accounts first published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 
are the reminiscences of twelve men who took part in one way or another in the 
scientific research which culminated with the testing of the first bomb at Alamogordo. 
Much has been written about the Manhattan Project, but little has been written by the 
scientists themselves. These recollections help to fill that gap with an extra dimension 
of immediacy. They have not been sifted through other minds or distorted by other 
hands. They are like snapshots from a personal memory album, a small slice of 
history.

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