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| From the Editor: Preserving the Manhattan Project Cynthia C. Kelly, President, Atomic Heritage Foundation | |
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| Introduction: Richard Rhodes, Author, The Making of the Atomic Bomb | |
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| Explosive Discoveries and Bureaucratic Inertia | |
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| Thinking No Pedestrian Thoughts | |
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| The Atomic Bombs Burst in Their Fumbling Hands | |
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| If Only We Had Been Clever Enough | |
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| What Wasn't Expected Wasn't Seen! | |
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| I Had Come Close But Had Missed a Great Discovery | |
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| Enlisting Einstein | |
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| Albert Einstein to F.D. Roosevelt | |
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| A Practically Irresistible Super-Bomb | |
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| Working for Otto Frisch | |
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| Likely to Lead to Decisive Results | |
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| Wild Notions about Atom Bombs | |
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| Transatlantic Travails | |
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| An Unprecedented Alliance | |
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| The Rather Fuzzy State of Our Thinking | |
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| The Stuff Will Be More Powerful Than We Thought | |
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| You'll Never Get a Chain Reaction Going Here | |
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| The Chicago Pile-1: The First Chain Reaction | |
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| Fermi Was Cool as a Cucumber | |
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| Proceeding in the Dark | |
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| Swimming in Syrup | |
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| The Los Alamos Primer: How to Make an Atomic Bomb | |
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| These Were Very Great Men Indeed | |
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| Misunderstandings and Anxieties | |
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| A Weapon of Devastating Power...Will Soon Become Available | |
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| One Top Secret Agreement Too Many | |
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| An Extraordinary Pair | |
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| His Potential Outweighed Any Security Risk | |
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| Scientific Director for the Special Laboratory in New Mexico | |
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| When You Looked at Captain Groves, a Little Alarm Bell Rang "Caution" | |
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| Decisive, Confident, and Cool | |
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| A Bureaucratic Warrior of the First Rank | |
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| The Biggest S.O.B. | |
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| Not Right-Do It Again | |
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| A "Jewish Pan" at Berkeley | |
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| The Absentminded Professor | |
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| His Head Wreathed in a Cloud of Smoke | |
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| A Psychiatrist by Vocation and a Physicist by Avocation | |
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| The Most Compelling Man | |
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| Appeasing General Groves | |
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| Visions of Immortality | |
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| An Audacious Gamble | |
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| When Robert Oppenheimer Walked onto the Page | |
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| Doctor Atomic: The Myth and the Man | |
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| A Cascade of Different Oppenheimers | |
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| Secret Cities | |
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| A New and Uncertain Adventure in the Wilderness | |
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| A Crazy Place to Do Any War Thing | |
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| Excitement, Devotion, and Patriotism Prevailed | |
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| The Case of the Vanishing Physicists | |
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| Learning on the Job | |
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| Life at P. O. Box 1663 | |
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| A Boy's Adventures at Los Alamos | |
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| Something Extraordinary Was Happening Here | |
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| A Relief from the Hubbub of the Hill | |
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| An SED at Los Alamos | |
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| A Bad Time to Get a New Boss | |
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| Tumbleweed and Jackrabbits in the Evergreen State | |
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| Making Toilet Paper | |
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| Termination Winds | |
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| Whoever Gets There First Will Win the War | |
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| The Whole Project Was Like a Three-Legged Stool | |
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| Cover Stories | |
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| K-25 Plant; Forty-four Acres and a Mile Long | |
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| Tennessee Girls on the Job | |
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| Ode to Life Behind the Fence | |
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| Operating Oak Ridge's "Calutrons," Theodore Rockwell | |
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| Men, Write Home for Christmas | |
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| An Answer to Their Prayers | |
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| All-Black Crews with White Foremen | |
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| Manhattan Project Sites in Manhattan | |
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| Manhattan Project Sites in Washington, D.C. | |
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| Monsanto's Playhouse for Polonium | |
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| Mysteries at the Met Lab | |
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| Secrecy, Intelligence, and Counterintelligence | |
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| Unprecedented Security Measures | |
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| Security: A Headache on the Hill | |
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| Mrs. Farmer, I Presume | |
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| As If They Were Walking in the Woods | |
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| Electric Rocket Story Fails to Launch | |
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| A Spy in Our Midst | |
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| Never in Our Wildest Dreams | |
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| The Youngest Spies | |
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| Enormoz Espionage | |
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| Undercover Agents at Berkeley | |
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| Jump Start for the Soviets | |
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| Holes in the Security Fence | |
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| A Calming Role for the Counterintelligence Corps | |
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| The Alsos Mission: Scientists as Sleuths | |
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| From France to the Black Forest: Seeking Atomic Scientists | |
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| I Have Been Expecting You | |
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| The Trinity Test | |
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| Leaving the Bomb Project | |
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| Anticipating the End of War | |
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| Scientists Will Be Held Responsible | |
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| Advising Against the Bomb | |
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| No Acceptable Alternative | |
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| Scientists Petition the President | |
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| Watching Trinity | |
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| Babysitting the Bomb | |
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| A Handful of Soldiers at Trinity | |
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| Eyewitness Accounts of the Trinity Test | |
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| Violence without Limit | |
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| Dropping the Bombs | |
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| Aiming for Military and Psychological Effects | |
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| Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: Born Too Soon | |
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| The 509th Composite Group at Tinian Island | |
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| Official Bombing Order, 25 July, 1945 | |
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| A Very Sobering Event | |
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| Massive Pain, Suffering, and Horror | |
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| Miss Yamaoka, You Look Like a Monster | |
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| For All We Know, We Have Created a Frankenstein! | |
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| The Battle of the Laboratories | |
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| The Culmination of Years of Herculean Effort | |
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| Eyewitness over Nagasaki | |
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| It Was Over!, Lieutenant Colonel | |
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| The Atomic Bomb's Peculiar "Disease" | |
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| Reflections on the Bomb | |
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| Outwitting General Groves | |
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| Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists | |
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| You Have Done Excellent Work | |
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| A Citizen's Guide to the Atomic Bomb: The Smyth Report | |
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| Hersey's Hiroshima | |
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| The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb | |
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| History Is Often Not What Actually Happened | |
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| A Question of Motives | |
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| Thank God for the Atom Bomb | |
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| The Return to Nothingness | |
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| The Bomb in National Memories | |
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| Hiroshima in History | |
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| Why Does This Decision Continue to Haunt Us? | |
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| Living with the Bomb | |
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| On The International Control of Atomic Energy | |
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| Open Letter to the United Nations | |
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| I Hope Note a Soul Will Remember My Name | |
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| Atoms for Peace | |
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| A Cold War Warning: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto | |
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| A World Free of Nuclear Weapons | |
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| The Nuclear Threat | |
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| Thoughts on a 21st-Century Manhattan Project | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Biographies | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Text Credits | |