About Alsos

Nuclear weapons and nuclear power have greatly influenced history from 1945 to the present. This digital library provides an annotated bibliography of over 2,000 books, articles, films, CDs, and websites about a broad range of nuclear issues.

• The Atomic Age: Historical Overview
• The Atomic Age: Scientific Overview
• About the Library
• Contact Alsos

Alsos Categories

Issues

Arms Control | Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb | Nuclear Power | Terrorism | Current Updates | more

Science

Nuclear Fuel Cycle | Nuclear Reactors | Plutonium | Gas Centrifuge | Radioactivity | more

Disciplines

Engineering | Film | Chemistry | Economics | Ethics | more

Warfare

Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program | North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program | Radiological Dispersal Device (RDD) | Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems | Cuban Missile Crisis | more

Places

Los Alamos, New Mexico | Yongbyon, North Korea | Arzamas-16, Russia | Dimona, Israel | Cambridge, United Kingdom | more

People

Oppenheimer, J. Robert | Teller, Edward | Sakharov, Andrei | Rutherford, Ernest | Szilard, Leo | more

Featured Topics

• Nuclear Reactors
• Nuclear Novels and Poetry
• Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

Alsos for...

Students

Students can use Alsos to investigate nuclear topics and prepare assignments.

Professionals

Professionals can access references presenting nuclear issues to diverse audiences.

Educators

Educators from middle school through graduate programs will find resources for planning activities related to nuclear subjects.

Lifelong learners

Lifelong learners can explore a broad range of interesting materials about nuclear matters.

	This project is part of the National Science Digital Library funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation Grants 0434253, 0226152, 0085657.
	Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, hosts and partially supports Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues.
	The Alsos Library is a member of Nuclear Pathways, a group of related sites which provide information on a broad range of nuclear topics.

The collection was last updated on September 30, 2008.

The bibliographic information in this website is freely available except for the text of the annotations, for which credit must be given; permission must be obtained for commercial use of the annotations. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.