Оппенгеймер. Альтернатива

Huzel Dieter K. From Peenemünde to Canaveral. Englewood Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1962.

Jacobsen Annie. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. Little Brown, New York, 2014.

Longmate Norman. Hitler’s Rockets: The Story of the V-2s. Skyhorse, New York, 2009.

Neufeld Michael J. Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007.

von Braun Wernher. The Mars Project. University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL, 1991.

______. Project Mars: A Technical Tale. Apogee, Burlington ON, 2006 [von Braun’s novel, at last seeing print in English].

Прочие исторические персоны

Bodanis David. Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2016.

Clark Ronald W. Einstein: The Life and Times. World Publishing Company, New York, 1971.

Fermi Laura. Atoms in the Family. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1954 [Enrico Fermi].

Feynman Richard P. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman. Perseus Publishing, New York, 1999.

______. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! W. W. Norton, New York, 1985.

______. What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character. W. W. Norton, New York, 1988.

Gleick James. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Vintage, New York, 1992.

Goodchild Peter. Edward Teller: The Real Dr Strangelove. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004.

Hargittai Istvan. Judging Edward Teller: A Closer Look at One of the Most Influential Scientists of the Twentieth Century. Prometheus, New York, 2010.

______. The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, London, 2006 [Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Theodore Von Karman, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner].

Herken Gregg. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. Henry Holt, New York, 2002.

Isaacson Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007.

Krauss Lawrence M. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science. W. W. Norton, New York, 2011.

Lanouette William with Bela Silard. Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1992.

Marton Kati. The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006 [Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann].

Orear Jay et. al. Enrico Fermi – The Master Scientist. The Internet-First University Press, Ithaca NY, 2004.

Pfau Richard. No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, 1984.

Rigden John S. Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1987.

Rolls Jem. The Inventor of All Things. One-man play about Leo Szilard performed at fringe-theater festivals worldwide since 2015.

Schwartz David N. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. Basic Books, New York, 2017.

Segrè Gino and Bettina Hoerlin. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. Henry Holt, New York, 2016.

Smith P. D. Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. Penguin, London, 2007 [Edward Teller].

Strauss Lewis L. Men and Decisions. Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1962 [Strauss’s autobiography].