Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
Introductions
I: Him
II: Us
It and Them. At First
Front to Front
To Dark and Mysterious Places
Fission Discovered
And Einstein Signed a Letter
From Harvard to Los Alamos
Los Alamos
Everyday Life in Los Alamos
The Essentials
Living to Work
In Free Time
Etiquette
Friendships
Candid Camera
News from Outside
Prayer in the Mountains
Political Affairs
Redefining the Site
A Scientist at Los Alamos
The First day
Early Calculations

The Theoretical Division: Bethe Versus Teller
Computers at Los Alamos
Progressively Harder Calculations
Orchestrating Calculations
Shared Concerns
Oppenheimer
The Strange Couple
A Literary Figure
The Arbiter of Good Taste
Family Life
The Bomb
The Gadget
Windshield Wipers for Submarines
Little Boy and Fat Man
Neutrons at Different Time Scales
The Hardest Part
The Jumbo
Pre-detonation
The Simplest Solution, the Biggest Problem
Fruitless Efforts
Lens Solution
Uranium Versus Plutonium
Spies
Security
Espionage
Klaus Fuchs

Theodore Hall
One Who Got Away: Joseph Rotblat
Atomic Explosions
Trinity
Flash
The Betting Pool
The Fermi Estimate
Radioactivity
Japan
What the Scientists Knew
The Decision
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
A Telegram
Ethics
The Secret is Out
The Aftermath of the War
Towards the H-Bomb
A Strange Period
Silence from Los Alamos
Trouble with the Law
Relations with the USSR
The H-bomb
Ironies
Losing Contact with Los Alamos
Farewell to Arms
Back to School
Different Paths
We'll Meet Again
Bizarre Happenings

The Transformation of Los Alamos
Oppenheimer Reviled
The Hearings
American Hero
American Primitives
Envy of Oppenheimer
Security on Trial
Private Loves
The Witch Hunter
The Right Word
Roy J. Glauber
Sketches of a Bio
Traveling Youth
Going to College
The Nobel Prize
The Road to the Nobel
The Sudarshan Controversy
A Sad Sequel
A Nobel Prize
Meanings
One of Them
Big Science
Worth the Effort
Appendix A: Nobel Laureates
Appendix B: Extraordinary Minds
Appendix C: Los Alamos Organization Chart
Epilogue
Notes
References