(8vo) salmon cloth, dust jacket. First Edition.

First trade edition (preceded only by a mimeographed version prepared for the press).  Signed on the verso of the front free endpaper and on the half title by more than 50 of those involved in the research at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, under the direction of Ernest Lawrence, for the development of the first atomic bomb. Signers include:

• Ernest Lawrence: Director and Nobel Prize winner
• W.M. Brobeck: scientist – mentioned in Chapter XI
• Ted Fahrner: scientist –mentioned in Chapter XI
• EJ Lofgren: scientist  –mentioned in Chapter XI
• Bill Parkins: scientist – mentioned in Chapter XI
• JR Richardson: mentioned in Chapter XI
• T.E. Allibone: UK scientist at Berkeley – Tube Alloy Project in UK
• SC Curran: UK scientist at Berkeley
• HWB Skinner: UK scientist at Berkeley
• W. Salsig: scientist
• WH Appleton: scientist
• Joseph Hamilton: scientist – medical physicist – wrote Buchenwald Touch memo – died of radiation induced leukemia. Performed radiation experiments on patients without consent.
• Duane Sewell: scientist
• K. Mackenzie: scientist
• Elmer Kelly: Berkeley – developed 88” cyclotron in the 1960’s
• Bernard Peters: Scientist – associate of R. Oppenheimer
• Harold Fidler: Berkeley Lab – awarded service medal for outstanding work by General Groves
• KB Stoddard: Scientist, Berkeley Lab – later Dean of Optometry at Berkeley
• W. Powell: developed magnets for calutron and worked on “race track “ at Oak Ridge
• Herbert York: Berkeley Lab and later chief arms control negotiator-first Chancellor of UC San Diego
• Andrew Guthrie: worked on calutrons at Berkeley
• Roger Hildebrand: worked with Lawrence to transmit uranium into plutonium
• William Siri: research engineer
• Ted Finkelstein: Lawrence Lab
• Arnold Clark: physicist with Lawrence at Berkeley
• RH Dawton: British physicist at Berkeley
• Walter Basinger: scientist Berkeley Lab
• JR Richardson Canadian physicist at Berkeley : worked with Lawrence at Berkeley and Oak Ridge
• Roger Hildebrand: physicist : worked with Lawrence at Berkeley
• Hebert York: physicist at Berkeley and later chief arms control negotiator for Jimmy Carter
• W.M. Powell head of magnet group at Berkeley and worked on calutron at Oak Ridge
• Kenneth Stoddard: scientist with Lawrence at Berkeley and later Dean of Optometry at Berkeley
• and others.

Also included two mimeograph letters, one by Oppenheimer and one by Bainbridge connected to the Manhattan Project, the Oppenheimer letter released August 6th, after the bombing of Hiroshima and the Bainbridge letter dealing with the then uncertain future of the Los Alamos Lab. A small but historically  important collection of documents related to the development use and continued future of Los Alamos and the making of atomic America.