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 2,700 books, articles, films, CDs, and websites about a broad range of nuclear issues.

• More about the Library
• National Advisory Board
  
• Credits
• The U.S. Army's Alsos Mission in World War II
  

The Atomic Age

• Historical Overview
• Scientific Overview Revised

Alsos Categories

Issues

Proliferation | Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb | Nuclear Power | Terrorism | Nuclear Waste | more

Science

Nuclear Fuel Cycle | Nuclear Reactors | Plutonium | Enriching Uranium | Reprocessing Spent Fuel | 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 | Natanz, Iran | more

People

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

FEATURED TOPICS

The Economics of Nuclear Power Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaties The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Nuclear Weapons Delivery Systems

NUCLEAR PHYSICISTS

J. Robert Oppenheimer Edward Teller Andrei Sakharov Werner Heisenberg

	This project is part of the National Science Digital Library funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation Grants 0434253, 0226152, 0085657. It is also funded by a gift from Mr. H. F. "Gerry" Lenfest.
	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 February 8, 2010.

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.