by Sam Kean
The Lost Prince: Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy: The Story of the Oldest Brother, by Hank Searls, World Publishing Company, 1969
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, Simon & Schuster, 1987
Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb, by Vincent C. Jones, U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1985
The Mare’s Nest: The War Against Hitler’s Secret Vengeance Weapons, by David Irving, Panther Press, 1985
Marie Curie: A Life, by Francoise Giroud, Holmes & Meier, 1986
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family, by Shelley Emling, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013
Moe Berg: Athlete, Scholar, Spy, by Louis Kaufman, Barbara Fitzgerald, and Tom Sewell, Little, Brown, 1974
Most Secret War, by R. V. Jones, Penguin, 2009
Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project, by Leslie Groves, Da Capo Press, 1983
Of Spies and Stratagems, by Stanley P. Lovell, Prentice-Hall, 1963
Operation Big: The Race to Stop Hitler’s A-Bomb, by Colin Brown, Amberley Publishing, 2016
Operation Freshman: The Rjukan Heavy Water Raid, by Richard Wiggan, HarperCollins, 1986
The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial, by Philip M. Stern, HarperCollins, 1969
OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad During World War II, by John Whiteclay Chambers II, U.S. National Park Service, 2008
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations, by Werner Heisenberg, Harper & Row, 1972
Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources, by Klaus Hentschel, ed., Birkhäuser, 1996
The Quest for Absolute Security: The Failed Relations Among U.S. Intelligence Agencies, by Athan Theoharis, Ivan R. Dee, 2007
Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War, by Katherine A. S. Sibley, University Press of Kansas, 2004
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, by Ray Monk, Random House, 2012
The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb, by Anthony Cave Brown, Dial Books, 1977
She Lived For Science, by Robin McKown, Julian Messner, 1962
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea, by Jeffrey T. Richelson, W. W. Norton, 2006
Tapping Hitler’s Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations 1942–45, by Sönke Neitzel, Frontline Books, 2007
The Virus House: Germany’s Atomic Research and Allied Countermeasures, by David Irving, Kimber, 1967
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, by Douglas Waller, Free Press, 2012
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb, Mariner Books, 2017
Archives and Libraries
American Institute of Physics, Samuel Goudsmit Collection, College Park, Maryland
American Jewish Historical Society, New York, New York
California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California
Columbia University, Moe Berg Papers, New York, New York
Danish National Archives, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hoover Institute, Boris Pash Papers, Palo Alto, California
Iowa State University Archives, Ames, Iowa
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles Public Library Archives, Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Military Personnel Records, National Archives and Records Administration, St. Louis, Missouri
National Archives and Records Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis, Oregon
Princeton University, Moe Berg Papers, Princeton, New Jersey
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, California
Rockefeller Institute Archives, Sleepy Hollow, New York
Science History Institute (formerly the Chemical Heritage Foundation), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stanford University Archives, Palo Alto, California
University of California at San Diego Archives, San Diego, California
University of Chicago Archives, Chicago, Illinois
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library Archives, Ann Arbor, Michigan
About the Author
Sam Kean is the New York Times bestselling author of Caesar’s Last Breath, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, The Disappearing Spoon, and The Violinist’s Thumb. Caesar’s Last Breath was named The Guardian’s top science book of 2017. The Disappearing Spoon was a runner-up for the Royal Society of London’s book of the year for 2010, and The Violinist’s Thumb and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons were nominated for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2013 and 2015, as well as the AAAS/Subaru SB&F prize. Kean edited the 2018 edition of The Best American Nature and Science Writing, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Psychology Today, Slate, Mental Floss, and other publications. He has also been featured on NPR’s Radiolab, All Things Considered, Science Friday, and Fresh Air.
Also by Sam Kean
Caesar’s Last Breath
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The Violinist’s Thumb
The Disappearing Spoon
