Author:
New York Times.
Imprint:New York : Delacorte Press, [1965]
Descriptionvi, 211 p. : illus., facsims., ports. ; 22 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:The Einstein letter: the beginning / Ralph E. Lapp -- Hiroshima decision / Hanson W. Baldwin -- Hiroshima atoday / A.M. Rosenthal -- The fourth generation: consumption with a passion / George R. Packard III -- Peaceful uses of atomic energy / Clinton P. Anderson -- The bomb and international politics / Richard H. Rovere -- The scientists: their views 20 years later / William L. Laurence -- The bomb and man's consciousness / W.H. Auden -- APPENDIX A: Albert Einstein's letter to President Roosevelt -- The ABC of the atom / J. Bronowski -- The first New York Times report of the Hiroshima A-blast / Sidney Shalett -- The second New York Times reort of the blast / W.H. Lawrence -- APPENDIX B: An historic eyewitness report on the early development and testing of the A-bomb / William L. Laurence.