Table of Contents
Prologue 1
Part 1 The Road toe Hanford
Chapter 1 Beginnings 9
Chapter 2 The Chain Reaction 18
Chapter 3 Element 94 28
Chapter 4 The Decision 35
Chapter 5 The Met Lab 43
Chapter 6 Plutonium at Last 49
Chapter 7 The Demonstration 54
Part 2 A Factory in the Desert
Chapter 8 The Evicted 63
Chapter 9 The Builders 72
Chapter 10 The B Reactor 85
Chapter 11 The T Plant 101
Chapter 12 Implosion 111
Chapter 13 Washington, Dc 122
Chapter 14 Trinity 137
Chapter 15 Tiniah Island 153
Part 3 Under the Mushroom Cloud
Chapter 16 Nagasaki Medical College Hospital 167
Chapter 17 The Urakami Valley 177
Chapter 18 Nagasaki 183
Part 4 Confronting Armageddon
Chapter 19 The Cold War 191
Chapter 20 Building the Nuclear Arsenal 210
Chapter 21 Peak Production 221
Chapter 22 The Reckoning 238
Chapter 23 Remembering 255
Epilogue 274
Acknowledgments 279
Notes 283
Bibliography 301
Index 319