Sherwin, Martin J. creator mixed material monographic eng 26,000 19 69 1 2 27.6 Research material gathered by Sherman, Kai Bird, Alice Kimball Smith, and others regarding J. Robert Oppenheimer. Used by Bird and Sherman in writing American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005). Includes correspondence, interviews, oral histories, government records, topical files, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Documents Oppenheimer's work as director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, his political views, and investigations of his Communist associations. Subjects include the atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, international control of atomic energy and weaponry, national security, and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Persons represented include Hans A. Bethe, Haakon Chevalier, Lee A. DuBridge, Francis Fergusson, Leslie R. Groves, Paul Horgan, George F. Kennan, David Eli Lilienthal, Frank Oppenheimer, Katherine P. Oppenheimer, Lewis L. Strauss, Jean Tatlock, and Edward Teller. Open to research. Audiocassettes and reel-to-reel tape transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Author, biographer, and educator. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011004 Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht) 1906-2005 Bird, Kai Chevalier, Haakon 1902-1985 DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin) 1901-1994 Fergusson, Francis Groves, Leslie R 1896-1970 Horgan, Paul 1903-1995 Kennan, George F. (George Frost) 1904-2005 Lilienthal, David Eli 1899-1981 Oppenheimer, Frank 1912-1985 Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Oppenheimer, Katherine P. (Katherine Puening) 1910?-1972 Smith, Alice Kimball Strauss, Lewis L Tatlock, Jean Teller, Edward 1908-2003 Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Atomic bomb Atomic bomb Moral and ethical aspects Communism United States Hydrogen bomb Hydrogen bomb Moral and ethical aspects Internal security United States National security United States Nuclear arms control International cooperation Nuclear energy International cooperation Nuclear physics United States Nuclear weapons Science Moral and ethical aspects United States Science Political aspects United States United States Politics and government 20th century Authors Biographers Educators mm2008085395 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011004 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011004.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011004 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011004.3 Open to research. DLC 080117 20260227111731.0 mm2008085395