Germany and World War II

Herf, Jeffrey. Reactionary modernism: technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Renneberg, Monika, and Mark Walker (eds.).  1994.  Science, Technology and National Socialism.  Cambridge Univ. Press. <NG>

Walker, Mark.  German national socialism and the quest for nuclear power, 1939-1949.  Cambridge/New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Atomic and Nuclear Weapons

Drell, Sidney D.  1993.  In the shadow of the bomb: physics and arms control.  New York: American Institute of Physics.

Fermi, Rachel and Esther Samra. 1995.  Picturing the bomb: photographs from the secret world of the Manhattan Project.  New York: H.N. Abrams.

Gray, Colin S.  1981.  The MX, ICBM, and national security.  New York: Praeger.

Groueff, Stephane.  1967.  Manhattan Project: the untold story of the making of the atomic bomb.  Boston: Little, Brown.

Groves, Leslie R.  1962.  Now it can be told: the story of the Manhattan Project.  New York, Harper.

Hewlett, Richard G. and Oscar E. Anderson Jr.  1962.  A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, vol. 1: The New World [1939-1946].  Washington: Government Printing Office.

Hewlett, Richard G. and Jack M. Holl.  Atoms for peace and war, 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Hughes, Thomas P.  1998.  Rescuing Prometheus.  Pantheon. [see chapters on SAGE bomber defense, Atlas missile, ARPANET]

Jones, Vincent C.  1985.  Manhattan, the Army and the atomic bomb.  Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army.

Lindee, M. Susan.  1994.  Suffering made real: American science and the survivors at Hiroshima.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

MacKenzie, Donald.  1990.  Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance.  MIT Press.

Nichols, Kenneth D.  1987.  The Road to Trinity.   New York: Morrow.

Rhodes, Richard.  1986.  The making of the atomic bomb.  New York: Simon & Schuster. [Best discussion of the many facets of the atom bomb project]

Rhodes, Richard.  1995.  Dark sun: the making of the hydrogen bomb.  New York: Simon & Schuster. <NG>

Serber, Robert.  1943/1992.  The Los Alamos primer: the first lectures on how to build an atomic bomb.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. [Based on a set of 5 lectures Serber gave during April 1943 at starting of Los Alamos project.]

Schloming, Gordon Clark.  1987.  American foreign policy and the nuclear dilemma.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Scoville, Herbert.  1981.  MX: prescription for disaster.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

Truslow, Edith C., Ralph Carlisle Smith, David Hawkins.  1961/1983.  Project Y, the Los Alamos story.  Los Angeles: Tomash Publishers, 1983.  [Reprint. Originally published: Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Los Alamos Project. Los Alamos: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, 1961.]
 

Military Microelectronics [see also history of computing bibliography]

Allison, David K.  "U.S. Navy Research and Development since World War II."  Chapter 7 in Merritt Roe Smith (ed.)  Military Enterprise and Technological Change.  MIT Press.

Baum, Claude.  1981.  The System Builders: The Story of SDC.  Santa Monica: System Development Corporation. 

Etzkowitz, Henry and Loet Leydesdorff. 1997. Universities and the global knowledge economy: a triple helix of university-industry-government relations.  London/New York: Pinter.

Everett Mendelsohn, Merritt Roe Smith, Peter Weingart (eds.).  1988. Science, technology, and the military.  Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic.

Flamm, Kenneth.  1988.  Creating the Computer: Government, Industry and High Technology.  Washtington: Brookings Institution.

Forman, Paul.  1987.  "Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960."  Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 18: 149-229.

Galison, Peter and Bruce Hevly (eds.).  Big Science: the growth of large-scale research.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Geiger, Roger L.  1993.  Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities since World War II.  Oxford University Press.

Hughes, Thomas P.  1998.  Rescuing Prometheus.  Pantheon. [case studies of SAGE bomber defense, Atlas missile, ARPANET, and Boston's Central Artery projects]

Komons, Nick A.  1966.  Science and the Air Force: A History of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.  Arlington: Office of Aerospace Research. 

Leslie, Stuart W.  1993.  The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford.  New York.  Columbia University Press.

Misa, Thomas J.  "Military Needs, Commercial Realities, and the Development of the Transistor, 1948-1958."  Chapter 6 in Merritt Roe Smith (ed.)  Military Enterprise and Technological Change.  MIT Press.  On-line at <www.stanford.edu/group/mmdd/SiliconValley/MisaT/DevelopTransistor/DevelopTransistor.html> (Oct. 2002)

Noble, David F.  1984.  Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation.  New York: Knopf.

Noble, David F.  1985.  "Command Performance: A Perspective on Military Enterprise and Technological Change."  Chapter 8 in Merritt Roe Smith (ed.)  Military Enterprise and Technological Change.  MIT Press.

Norberg, Arthur, and Judy E. O'Neill.  1996.  Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Rand Corporation.  The Rand Corporation: the first fifteen years.  Santa Monica: The Corporation, 1963. [46 p.]

Redmond, Kent C. and Thomas M. Smith.  1980.  Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer.  Bedford, Mass.: Digital Press.

Roland, Alex.  1985.  "Technology and War: A Bibliographic Essay."  Chapter 9 in Merritt Roe Smith (ed.)  Military Enterprise and Technological Change.  MIT Press.

Sapolsky, Harvey M.  1990.  Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Smith, Bruce L. R.  1966.  The RAND Corporation: Case Study of a Non-Profit Advisory Corporation.  Harvard University Press.

Smith, Merritt Roe (ed.). 1985.  Military enterprise and technological change: perspectives on the American experience.  Cambridge: MIT Press.

Soviet Union and Cold War

Relyea, Harold.  1994.  Silencing science: National security controls and scientific communication. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. 

Sanders, Ralph.  1990.  Arms industries: New suppliers and regional security.  Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press.

Shelton, William.  1968. Soviet Space Exploration. The First Decade. Washington Square Press.

Yergin, Daniel.  1978.  Shattered peace: The origins of the cold war and the national security state.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Young, John W.  1991.  Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A political history.  London: E. Arnold; New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall.
 

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