#M. Vassiliev

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“Milestones of the Space Era”

by M. Vassiliev

(Mashinostroenie, 1967)

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Hi, I had to redo these last two reblogs because I noticed something with that needed to be fixed...

Anyway, the sources I transcribed yesterday, encase someone wants more books to look for with this topic:

Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Gallagher, Thomas. Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 1975.

Haynes, John Earl, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev. Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Holoway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: the Soviet Union and the Atomic Energy, 1939-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Jungk, Robert. Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1965.

Lamont, Lansing. Day of Trinity. New Yorl: Atheneum, 1965.

Laurence, William. Dawn Over Zero: The Story of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Public Affairs Office. Los Alamos 1943-1945: The Beginning of an Era. Los Alamos, NM, 1986.

Mears, Ray. The Real Heros of Telemark. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.

Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. New York: Random House, 2001.

Powers, Thomas. Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1993.

Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Serber, Robert. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How th Build an Atomic Bomb. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Shirer, William, L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japenese Empire, 1936- 1945. New York: The Modern Library, 2003.

Zoellner, Tom. Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World. New York: Viking, 2009.

Character Sources

Albright, Joseph, and Marcia Kunstel. Bombshell: The Secret Story of America’s Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. New York: Times Book, 1997.

Bird, Kai and Martin Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vantage Books, 2005.

Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: The New Press, 1992.

Cole, K.C. Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

Davis, Nuel Pharr. Lawrence and Oppenheimer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Pantheon Book, 1994.

Goodchild, Peter. J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds. New York: Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1985.

Hall, Joan. Interview on PBS Program “Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies.” Broadcast Feb. 5, 2002.

Herken, Gregg. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002.

Hornblum, Allen M. The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Larsen, Rebecca. Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb. New York: Franklin Watts, 1998.

McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Moon, Thomas and Carl F. Eifler. The Deadliest Colonel. New York: Vantage Press, 1975.

Moss, Norman. Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb. London: Grafton Books, 1987.

Norris, Robert S. Racing for the Bomb. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2002.

Pais, Abraham. J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Roberts, Sam. The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethal Rosenberg, the the Electric Chair. New York: Random House, 2001.

Royal, Denise. The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1969.

Steeper, Nancy Cook. Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibben. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Historical Society, 2003.

Sykes, Christopher. No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

Williams, Robert Chadwell. Klaus Fuchs: Atom Spy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Primary Sources

Alvarez, Luis. Interview conducted by Charles Weiner and Barry Richman, February 15, 1967. Recording house at Niels Bohr Library and Archives, College Park, MD.

Anderson, Herbert L. “Fermi, Szilard, and Trinity.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Oct. 1974, pgs. 40-47.

Badash, Lawrence, Joseph Hirschfelder, Herbert Broida, editors. Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943-1945. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall. New York: Copernicus Books, 2001.

Blum, John Morton, editor. The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973.

Churchill, Winston. The Hinge of Fate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.

Feklisov, Alexander, and Sergei Kostin. The Man Behind the Rosenbergs: Memoirs of the KGB Spymaster. New York: Enigma Books, 2004.

Fermi, Laura. Atoms in the Family. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Ferrell, Robert H., editor. Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History. Worland, WY: High Plains, 1996.

Feynman, Richard P. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Feynman, Richard P. What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

Frisch: What Little I Remember, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

Fuchs, Klaus. Statement made at British War Office, January 27, 1950. Available online at www.mi5.gov.uk

Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham. Alsos. New York: Henry Schuman, Inc., 1947.

Groves, Leslie. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962

Hachiya, Michihiko, MD. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6—September 30, 1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955.

Haukelid, Knut. Skis Against the Atom. Minor, ND: North American Heritage Press, 1989 (Originally published by William Kimber, 1954).

In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearing before Personal Security Board and Texts of Principal Documents and Letters. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1954.

Kelley, Cynthia C., editor. The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians. New York: Black Dog & Levanthal Publishers, 2007.

Lamphere, Rabert, and Tom Shachtman. The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agnet’s Story. New York: Random House, 1986.

Libby, Leona Marshall. The Uranium People. New York: Crane, Russak & Company, 1979.

Oppenheimer, Robert. “Oppenheimer Replies.” Bulletins of the Atomic Scientists, May 1954, pgs. 177-191

Osada, Arata, editor. Children of Hiroshima. Tokyo: Publishing Committee for Children of Hiroshima, 1980.

Bash, Boris. The Alsos Mission. New York: Award House, 1969.

Pearl Harbor Remembered: Survivors Remembrances, oral history collected by Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Upland, CA.

Roosevelt, Franklin, D. “Day of Infamy” Speech, December 8, 1941. Original at National Archives, Washington, D.C., and viewable online at www.archives.gov

Scope of Soviety Activity in the United States: Hearings to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956-57

Serber, Robert. Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Smith, Alice Kimball and Charles Weiner, editors. Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980.

Stimson, Henry. “Memorandum of Conference with the President” August 8, 1945, 10:45 AM. From the Henry Lewis Stimson Diaries, reel 9. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.

Szilard, Leo. His Vision of the Facts: Selected Recollections and Correspondence. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978.

Teller, Edward. Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001.

Tibbers, Paul W., with Clair Stebbings and Harry Franken. The Tibbets Story. New York: Stein and Day, 1978.

Truman, Harry. “Statement by the President of the United States.” Aug. 6, 1945. At Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independace, MO. Available online at www.trumanlibrary.org

Truman, Harry S. Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Volume 1: Year of Decisions. Garden City, NY: 1955.

Truman, Margaret, editor. Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman. New York: Warner Books, 1989.

Ulam, Stanislaw. Adventures of a Mathematician. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.

Wattenburg, Albert. “December 2, 1942: The Event and the People.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dec. 1982, pgs. 22-32.

Werner, Ruth. Sonya’s Report. London: Chatto & Windus, 1991.

Wigner, Eugene. The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner as Told to Andrew Szanton. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1992. Wilson, Jane. “All in Our Time: Reminiscences of Nuclear Pioneers.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1974, pgs. 10-18.

While our library didn’t have exactly what I was looking for, it does have Bomb by Steve Sheinkin

Here are pictures from the first few pages. One of Opje is captioned “Robert Oppenheimer poses at the front of his classroom at Princeton University, December 17, 1947”

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The future of the human race will not be an inglorious death in a greenhouse or a glass container....[it] will explore the limits of the atmosphere and will then conquer the space around the sun....Not only on earth but on the other planets and satellites will rise cities of glass with artificial atmospheres, helio-electric stations, and everything necessary for a completely basic change in living organisms....The first city of this type will be built on the moon. Look at these pictures taken by our Sputnik. All these circles and craters appear admirably suited to the foundation of cities covered by colossal glass roofs.

N.A Varvarov interviewed in M Vassiliev and S Gouschev (eds) Life in the Twenty-First Century, Penguin, London, 1959, p205.

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Peter Prevc takes win in the qualification

Peter Prevc won the first qualification on the reconstructed HS 225 Ski Flying hill in Oberstdorf. 5 800 fans saw the qualification jump of the Slovene of 221.5 m, which earned him a total of 203.7 points. With this performance Prevc seemed to be back again among the world's elite.

Behind Prevc, Russia's Dimitry Vassiliev (215 m; 196.6 points) and Robert Johansson of Norway (213.5 m; 190.9 points) convinced in second and third.

Dawid Kubacki, Jurij Tepes, Noriaki Kasai, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Evgeniy Klimov, Jernej Damjan and Denis Kornilov completed the Top 10 on the first day in Oberstdorf. The result list of the qualification is almost like a who-is-who of Ski Flying, plus three Russian athletes. The Russian team is showing really good performances right now, Evgeniy Klimov seems to push his teammates with his consistently strong performances since the start of the this season.

Veteran Janne Ahonen, who is the lone Finish athlete this weekend, came in 13th and presented himself in a good Ski Flying shape. The same applies for the two US Americans Kevin Bickner and Will Rhoads in 16th and 18th. Local hero Karl Geiger, who made the first official jump on the new hill on Thursday evening, also had no problems to qualify for the competition in 14th.

Among the jumpers, who failed to make the cut for the competition are the two young Austrians Philipp Aschenwald and Clemens Aigner, and Czech Lukas Hlava.

Besides the three top ranked jumpers in the qualification, Andreas Wellinger, who won in Willingen last weekend, Stefan Kraft of Austria and Slovenia's Domen Prevc, have to be considered favorites for Saturday's competition. Stefan Kraft provided the highlight of the day with a spectacular jump on 229 m in the official training. The Austrian then skipped the qualification jump.

Besides Kraft, Domen Prevc also left a strong impression. The youngest of the three Prevc brothers jumped on 205 and 221 m in training and, just like Kraft, he also decided not to make a third jump today. Both are already pre-qualified.

What can be said after the first day of flying in Oberstdorf: The new Heini-Klopfer-hill works, it works really well. At least that's what the athletes said after the first training and qualification jumps on the hill, that was modernized for about 12 million Euro.

The competition on Saturday will start at 4:00 pm CET.

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Oberstdorf - Tomorrow Ski Flying Competition

Peter Prevc (1st photo) won the first qualification on the reconstructed HS 225 Ski Flying hill in Oberstdorf. 5 800 fans saw the qualification jump of the Slovene of 221.5 m, which earned him a total of 203.7 points. With this performance Prevc seemed to be back again among the world's elite.

Behind Prevc, Russia's Dimitry Vassiliev (215 m; 196.6 points) and Robert Johansson of Norway (213.5 m; 190.9 points) convinced in second and third.

Besides the three top ranked jumpers in the qualification, Andreas Wellinger  (2nd photo), who won in Willingen last weekend, Stefan Kraft of Austria and Slovenia's Domen Prevc , have to be considered favorites for Saturday's competition. Stefan Kraft provided the highlight of the day with a spectacular jump on 229 m in the official training. The Austrian then skipped the qualification jump.

Besides Kraft, Domen Prevc also left a strong impression. The youngest of the three Prevc brothers jumped on 205 and 221 m in training and, just like Kraft, he also decided not to make a third jump today. Both are already pre-qualified.

Dawid Kubacki, Jurij Tepes, Noriaki Kasai, Gregor Schlierenzauer (3rd photo), Evgeniy Klimov, Jernej Damjan and Denis Kornilov completed the Top 10 on the first day in Oberstdorf,  they should be kept an eye on tomorrow

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Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion, by Alexandre Vassiliev