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Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. SIPRI Yearbook 1996. Lists all the numbers of nuclear tests (pp. 656-660).

Cave Brown, Anthony, and MacDonald, Charles B. The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1977. Technical account.

Del Tredici, Robert. At Work in the Fields of the Bomb. London: Harrap, 1987. A photographic account of the environmental legacy of the nuclear weapons enterprise.

Goodchild, Peter. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Shatterer of Worlds. London: BBC Publications, 1980. Seminal autobiography of the father of the atom bomb and excellent, clear account of the Manhattan Project and its aftermath.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Radioactive Heaven and Earth. London: Zed Books, 1991. Excellent account of the health and environmental effects of nuclear tests.

Jungk, Robert. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1958. Early, humanistic account of the bomb project, the individuals involved, and the early Cold War. Translated by James Cleugh.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. London: Simon &Shuster, 1986. Monumental work on the nuclear weapons project.

Shroyer, Jo Ann. Secret Mesa: Inside Los Alamos National Laboratory. Chichester: John Wiley &Sons, 1998. History of the Los Alamos laboratory, from the Manhattan Project to the present.

Wyden, Peter. Day One: Before Hiroshima and After. London: Simon &Shuster, 1984. Highly descriptive account of the events at Los Alamos leading up to the Trinity test.

Yamazaki, James N. Children of the Atomic Bomb. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1995. Account of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.