Rabbit Holes: Manhattan Project

 

Original Date: Aug 5,2025

working on a presentation about the manhattan project. will keep adding stuff I find in the web. If you know more/better resources do add here! :) thank you

this is just a list of links for now. Will write about it in detail later.

From left to right: Kenneth Bainbridge, Joseph Hoffman, Robert Oppenheimer, Louis Hempelmann, Robert Bacher, Victor Weisskopf and Richard Dodson. 

Nuclear Science for the Manhattan Project and Comparison toToday’s ENDF Data
Arthur Compton’s 1941 Report on explosive fission of U-235: A look at the physics

On the Origins of Lagrangian Hydrodynamic Methods

Critical Assemblies: Dragon Burst Assembly and Solution Assemblies

Criticality Experiments with Fast 235U and 239Pu Metal and Hydride Systems During the Manhattan Project

The Trinity High-Explosive Implosion System: The Foundation for Precision Explosive Applications

Neutronics Calculation Advances at Los Alamos: Manhattan Project to Monte Carlo

https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/4/1096/files/2022/06/Manhattan-rpr.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3287

Equation of State: Manhattan Project Developments and Beyond

The Los Alamos Computing Facility During the Manhattan Project

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Summary of the Human Consequences, 1945-2018, and Lessons for Homo sapiens to End the Nuclear Weapon Age

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5808140

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/People/Scientists/hans-bethe.html

THE RACE TO BUILD THE ATOMIC BOMB

https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00285863.pdf

https://www.flickr.com/photos/departmentofenergy/11872898104/in/album-72157639617106226

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/human-computers-los-alamos/

https://www.icanw.org/children

The Fission Bomb Had to Come First

https://www.energy.gov/lm/manhattan-project-photo-galleries

https://cdn.bookey.app/files/pdf/book/en/thirteen-days.pdf

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Decision to Drop the Bomb

Robert J. Oppenheimer’s Collection of Books at the Princeton University Library

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Resources/library.htm#graphite_reac

https://ia802909.us.archive.org/23/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.177496/2015.177496.Nuclear-Physics-Rev-Edition.pdf

https://gwern.net/doc/anime/eva/2020-manji.pdf

https://www.flickr.com/photos/departmentofenergy/albums/72157682143143734/page2

https://youtu.be/UBTJCNR6QiU?si=fxy4uneEgwQ28TYo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapons_program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nuclear_weapons

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-author-stephen-walker

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/harry-truman-and-the-nuclear-bombs-dropped-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki

https://www.peace-nagasaki.go.jp/abombrecords/b020105.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshito_Matsushige

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design#Gun-type_assembly

https://hpmmuseum.jp/modules/exhibition/index.php?action=ItemView&item_id=115&lang=eng

https://youtu.be/9Qak7Gux1gc?si=sbOX_nbGc7vMwgqw

https://youtu.be/be24Ft4kIa0?si=lPIIsA3YAO6y-bNn

https://youtu.be/qwEheAf3k60?si=eYMbh2coWJYNAt5s

https://youtu.be/_C-5i_ac9I4?si=NO8xzj275PSVu4RD

https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Project-SOLO-and-Seborers.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1927625?src=recsys#d1e257

Monte Carlo Methods: Early History and The Basics

1953: Fermi’s “little discovery” and the birth of the numerical experiment

The co-evolution of computational physics and high-performance computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computational_physics 

A Method for the Numerical Calculation of Hydrodynamic Shocks

Hitting the Jackpot:The Birth of the MonteCarlo Method

MANHATTAN DISTRICT HISTORY_PROJECT Y_THE LOS ALAMOS PROJECT

MANHATTAN: The army and the atomic bomb

Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

The Biggest Nuke in History

Evolution of Nuclear Bombs

https://youtu.be/ddsKsEL1kRA?si=bbCl7BQ53hXn6Yuu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Kuczynski

Nov 13,2025

https://bobonbooks.com/2025/04/17/review-american-prometheus/

https://richardblackaby.com/book-review-american-prometheus/

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Places/LosAlamos/la-life.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview7

 

 

Books

books I am currently reading for this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Los_Alamos_Primer.pdf

https://monoskop.org/images/f/fc/Goldstine_Herman_H_The_Computer_from_Pascal_to_von_Neumann.pdf

https://archive.org/details/UnforgettableFireDrawingsByAtomicBombSurvivors1967/page/n1/mode/2up

http://is2i-supsimu.fr/site_sup_sim/ressources_pedagogiques/A%20Technical%20History%20of%20Los%20Alamos%20During%20the%20Oppenheimer%20Years,%201943-1945%20%281993%29.pdf#page=148.20

Notes

#1 Sep 28 2025