[MANHATTAN PROJECT]. OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert (1904-1967). A group of works relating to Oppenheimer from the library of American scientist and chairman of the National bureau of Standards, Wallace R. Brode (1900-1974), comprising:

SMYTH, Henry DeWolf (1898-1986). Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original publisher's grey cloth lettered in burgundy on spine (some soiling); original printed yellow and black dust jacket (lower portion of spine panel missing, some chipping and soiling). FIRST EDITION, trade issue, SIGNED BY J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, HENRY D. SMYTH, and NORRIS BRADBURY. Smyth's work is a "remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of physicists, under the code name of 'Manhattan District', which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb" (PMM).

[With:] United States Atomic Energy Commission In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Transcript of Hearing before Personnel Security Board. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Original wrappers (hand-lettered on spine). Provenance: U. S. S. D. Reserve Collection (stamp front wrapper). -- Another copy. -- United States Atomic Energy Commission In the Matter of J. Robert. Oppenheimer. Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board General Manager Commissioners. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Original wrappers. -- Carbon copy typescript, 3pp., 16 June 1954. A press release comprising a "Statement by the Atomic Energy Commission," and a list of witnesses, including Enrico Fermi, Leslie R. Groves, Edward Teller, and John Von Neumann.

[Also with:] OPPENHEIMER. The Open Mind. NY, 1955. Original wrappers. Fourth printing INSCRIBED BY OPPENHEIMER. -- One World or None. New York, 1946. Original wrappers. Introduction by Niels Bohr and with contributions by Albert Einstein, Walter Lippmann, Oppenheimer and others of this "report to the public on the full meaning of the atomic bomb. -- ALSOP. We Accuse! The Story of the Miscarriage of American Justice in the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. NY, 1954. Original wrappers. -- And one other.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota