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"We scientists recognise our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death."

Albert Einstein, 1947

Atomic Energy and Nuclear History Collections

Above-ground nuclear test, ca. 1950s.
Curie, Mdme Sklodowska. Radio-Active Substances. Thesis presented to the Faculté des Sciences de Paris. (Second Edition), 1904.
Manhattan Project Pin, ca. 1945.
"Atomic Bomb Hits Nagasaki, Soviet Enters War, U.S. Bids Tokyo Quit," Boston Herald, August 9, 1945.
Severud, Fred N., and Anthony F. Merrill. The Bomb, Survival and You: Protection for People, Buildings, Equipment. New York: Reinhold, 1954.
U.S. Army photograph, annotated: "The 16th Signal Operations Bn provided 12 teletype machines and operators for the press at News Nob, Nevada Proving Grounds. 22 April 1952."
Hyde, Margaret O. Atoms Today and Tomorrow. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.
Atomic Research Corporation Geiger Counter, ca. 1954.
"Atomic War!" comic book, Vol I, No 2. Canton, Ohio: Junior Books, December 1952.
Smyth, Henry DeWolf. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. Princeton University Press, 1946.

Information and Credits

The history of the atomic era is a major collecting interest for the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections. The Atomic Energy and Nuclear History Collections consist of the vast History of Atomic Energy Collection, the smaller Hacker Nuclear Affairs and Maki Nuclear Power Collections, and the unprocessed Hanford Site Forty-Year Environmental Data Collection.

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Nuclear Escalation in the Twentieth Century.
WGBH - Boston Central Independent Television, 1988.

Quantity

4 Collections, 294 linear feet

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