Abstract This collection consists of four booklets related to the atomic bomb dating from 1945 to 1969. Included is "The Story of the Atomic Bomb" which contains articles William L. Laurence wrote for the New York Times from September to October 1945; "The Atomic Bomb and the End of the World" by Hyman J. Appelman in 1954; "If an Attack Comes," articles reprinted from the Evening Sun of Baltimore, MD in...

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Articles written by World War II veteran Eric Aberg on atomic weaponry, specifically the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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This collection consists of reports, letters, books, slides, and other materials documenting Hymer Friedell's work on the biological effects of radiation between 1943 and 1996. Much of the material dates from the Manhattan Project era and shortly thereafter. Of particular interest are slides documenting the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb (1945) and a trip to Moscow (1966), books about the Manhattan project, and retrospective accounts of Friedell's work from the 1990s.

Abstract This collection consists of two scrapbooks; one is a collection of press clippings about the Atomic Bomb. The press clippings are from Johnson City Press Chronicle, The Knoxville Journal, and The Knoxville News-Sentinel. The second scrapbook consists of press clippings concerning Japan and South Pacific during World War II. The first atomic bombs occurred on August 6 and 9, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The South Pacific theatre during World War II was a major theatre between the...