The Manhattan project : the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians

From the editor : Preserving the Manhattan Project / Introduction : A great work of human collaboration / Section 1 : Explosive discoveries and bureaucratic inertia -- Thinking no pedestrian thoughts / The atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands / If only we had been clever enough / What wasn't expected wasn't seen! / I had come close but had missed a great discovery / Enlisting Einstein / Albert Einstein to F.D. Roosevelt / A practically irresistible super-bomb / Working for Otto Frisch / Likely to lead to decisive results / Wild notions about atomic bombs / Transatlantic travails

Section 2 : An unprecedented alliance -- The rather fuzzy state of our thinking / The stuff will be more powerful than we thought / You'll never get a chain reaction going here / The Chicago Pile-1 : the first chain reaction / Fermi was cool as a cucumber / Proceeding in the dark / Swimming in syrup / The Los Alamos primer : how to make an atomic bomb / These were very great men indeed / Misunderstandings and anxieties / A weapon of devastating power will soon become available / One top secret agreement too many

Section 3 : An extraordinary pair -- His potential outweighed any security risk / Scientific director for the special laboratory in New Mexico / When you looked at Captain Groves, a little alarm bell rang "caution" / Decisive, confident and cool / A bureaucratic warrior of the first rank / The biggest S.O.B. / Not right, do it again! / A "Jewish Pan" at Berkeley / The absent-minded professor / His head wreathed in a cloud of smoke / A psychiatrist by vocation, and a physicist by avocation / The most compelling man / Appeasing General Groves / Visions of immortality / An audacious gamble / When Robert Oppenheimer walked onto the page / Doctor Atomic : the myth and the man / A cascade of different Oppenheimers

Section 4 : Secret cities -- A new and uncertain adventure in the wilderness / A crazy place to do any war thing / Excitement, devotion, and patriotism prevailed / The case of the vanishing physicists / Learning on the job / Life at P.O. Box 1663 / A boy's adventures at Los Alamos / Something extraordinary was happening here / A relief from the hubbub of the hill / An SED at Los Alamos / A bad time to get a new boss / Tumbleweed and jackrabbits in the Evergreen State / Making toilet paper / Termination winds / Whoever gets there first will win the war / The whole project was like a three-legged stool / Cover stories / K-25 Plant : forty-four acres and a mile long / Tennessee girls on the job / Ode to life behind the fence / Operating Oak Ridge's "calutrons" / Men, write home for Christmas / An answer to their prayers / All-Black crews with white foremen / Manhattan Project sites in Manhattan / Manhattan Project sites in Washington, D.C. / Monsanto's playhouse for polonium / Mysteries at the Met lab

Section 5 : Secrecy, intelligence and counterintelligence -- Unprecedented security measures / Robert S. Norris -- Security : a headache on the hill / Mrs. Farmer, I presume / As if they were walking in the woods / Electric rocket story fails to launch / A spy in our midst / Never in our wildest dreams / The youngest spies / Enormoz espionage / Jump start for the Soviets / Holes in the security fence / A calming role for the counterintelligence corps / The Alsos mission : scientists as sleuths / From France to the Black Forest : seeking atomic scientists / I have been expecting you / Section 6 : The Trinity Test -- Leaving the bomb project / Anticipating the end of war / Scientists will be held responsible / Advising against the bomb / No acceptable alternative / Scientists petition the President / Watching Trinity / Babysitting the bomb / A handful of soldiers at Trinity / Eyewitness accounts of the Trinity Test / Violence without limit

Section 7 : Dropping the bombs -- Aiming for military and psychological effects / Admiral Chester W. Nimitz : born too soon / Official bombing order, 25 July 1945 / A very sobering event : operational history of the 509th Bombardment -- Massive pain, suffering and horror / Miss Yamaoka, you look like a monster / For all we know, we have created a Frankenstein! / The battle of the laboratories / The culmination of years of Herculean effort / Eyewitness over Nagasaki / It was over! / The atomic bomb's peculiar "disease"

Section 8 : Reflections on the bomb -- Outwitting General Groves / Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists / You have done excellent work / A citizen's guide to the atomic bomb : The Smyth Report / Hersey's Hiroshima / The decision to use the atomic bomb / History is often not what actually happened / A question of motives / Thank God for the atomic bomb / The return to nothingness / The bomb in national memories / Hiroshima in History / Why does this decision continue to haunt us?

Section 9 : Living with the bomb -- On the international control of atomic energy / Open letter to the United Nations / I hope not a soul will remember my name / Atoms for peace / A cold war warning / A world free of nuclear weapons / The nuclear threat / Thoughts on a 21st-century Manhattan Project / Chronology -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- Text credits.

Magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory plasmas

Geophysical monograph ;

Magnetic field reconnection / Spontaneous reconnection / Fast spontaneous reconnection by the resistively coupled radiative instability / Steady state aspects of magnetic field line merging / Magentic reconnection and magnetic activity / The electronmagnetic field for an open magnetosphere / Quasilinear evolution of tearing modes during magnetic reconnection / Global single ion effects within the earth's plasma sheet / Magnetic reconnection and anomalous transport processes (A) / Comparison of an analytical approximation for particle motion in a current sheet with precise numerical calculations (A) / Magnetic reconnection at the sun / Magnetic reconnection in comets / Reconnection in the jovian magnetosphere (A) / Fine-scale structure of the jovian magnetotail current sheet (A) / Magnetic field reconnection at the magnetopause : an overview / Evidence of magnetic merging from low-altitude spacecraft and ground-based experiments / Plasma and particle observations at the magnetopause : implications for reconnection / Reconnection at the earth's magnetopause : magnetic field observations and flux transfer events / Recent investigations of flux transfer events observed at the dayside magnetopause / A dual-satellite study of the spatial properties of FTEs / The relation of flux transfer events to magnetic reconnection (A) / Flux transfer events and interplanetary magnetic field conditions (A) / Survey of ion distributions in flux transfer events (A) / Patterns of magnetic field merging sites on the magnetopause (A) / ISEE-3 plasma measurements in the lobes of the distant geomagnetic tail : inferences concerning reconnection at the dayside magnetopause (A) / Reconnection in earth's magnetotail : an overview / Magnetotail energy storage and the variability of the magnetotail current sheet / Plasma sheet behavior during substorms / Streaming energetic electrons in reconnection events / Particle and field signatures of substorms in the near magnetotail / Implications of the 1100 UT March 22, 1979, CDAW 6 substorm event for the role of magnetic reconnection in the geomagnetic tail / Substorm electric fields in the earth's magnetotail / Energetic ions and electrons and their acceleration processes in the magnetotail / The distant geomagnetic tail in theory and observation / ISEE 3 magnetic field observations in the magnetotail : implications for reconnection / Boundary layers of the earth's outer magnetosphere / >35 keV ion observations from ISEE-3 in the deep tail (A) / Three-dimensional computer modeling of dynamic reconnection in the magnetotail : plasmoid signatures in the near and distant tail / Externally driven magnetic reconnection / Computer modeling of fast collisionless reconnection / The nonlinear tearing mode / On the cause of x-line formation in the near-earth plasma sheet : results of adiabatic convection of plasma-sheet plasma / Numerical simulation of the dayside reconnection (A) / Comments on simulation of anomalous resistivity (A) / Reconnection during the formation of field reversed configurations / Driven magnetic reconnection during the formation of a two-cell field-reversed configuration / Reconnection in spheromak formation and sustainment / The role of magnetic reconnection phenomena in the reversed-field pinch / Reconnection in Tokamaks / A plasmoid release mechanism that could explain the substorm's impulsive earthward diversion of cross-tail current / Laboratory experiments on current sheet disruptions, double layers, turbulence and reconnection (A) / Magnetic reconnection in doublets (A) / Some comments on solar reconnection problems / Driven and non-driven reconnection; boundary conditions / Comments on numerical simulations / Definition of spontaneous reconnection / Astrophysical implications of reconnection / Validity of the petschek model / Solar flares : an extremum of reconnection / Evidence for the occurrence and importance of reconnection between the earth's magnetic field and the interplanetary magnetic field / Now consider diffusion / Definition of a substorm, physical processes in a substorm and sources of discomfort / The last words