Works Cited Primary Sources General Groves speaking to civilian personnel; 281577 [Electronic Record]; Records of the Atomic

Energy Commission. This letter from General Groves (director of the Manhattan Project) is directing this letter to the people who worked in making the first atomic bomb. The letter helped me realized how much the atomic bombs being used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed the course of WWII and the world. Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Harry S. Truman [Electronic Record]; National Archives. This letter is from Harry Stimson (Secretary of war) to President Harry Truman. This helped me because it shows how the people involved with the Manhattan Project took extra precautions to not having any outsiders know about it, because if any information was passed to another country it could costs thousands of American lives. 432 Wacs Praised for Arduous, Secret Work in Development of Atomic Bomb. The Service Woman 20 Sept, 1945: 16. Print. This is a newspaper article about the people who helped with the Manhattan Project. It helped because it shows me how secretive the Manhattan Project was because no one knew about it until Japan was bombed.

9 August 1945. National Archives and Records Administration. Web. 12 Oct. 2012. This is a photograph of the smoke when the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

Secondary Sources Albright, Joseph and Kunstel Marica. Bombshell: The Secret Story of Americas Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. New York: Times Books, 1997. Print. This is a book. It helped me because it described how one spy can change a war so much. Gonzales, Doreen. The Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000. Print. This is a short book about the Manhattan Project. It helped because it gave me an overview of the important

events of the Manhattan Project.

Hilena Vargas. Office of Research and Graduate Studies National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellowship Program. GK-12, n.d. Web. 14 September 2012. This is a website. It helped me because it describes what happened when the bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Jany Huan Gao. Legacy of a Bomb: The Manhattan Projects Impact on the Scientific Community. Berkeley Scientific Journal 12.9: 9-11. Web. 14 September 2012. This is an academic journal. It helped because it shows how the atomic bomb influenced new weapons. Manhattan Project. Los Alamos Historical Society. 20 January 2013. This website helped me find information about the place where the scientists built the bomb, Los Alamos. It also helped me get a picture of who worked on the Manhattan Project and what the conditions were. N.p. The Manhattan Project. Oracle ThinkQuest, n.d. Web. 14 September 2012. This is a website. It helped me because I realized the longterm effects of a nuclear bomb. Philip Levine. A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Modern American Poetry. 20 February 2012. Reed, Cameron. From Treasure Vault to Manhattan Project. American Scientist. Jan/Feb 2011, Vol. 99 Issue 1. Web. 31 January 2013. This website helped me find out what the atomic bomb required and how the scientists got the materials. It was helpful because it gave me insightful information. "The Manhattan Project." United States American History. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. This website gave me an in depth overview on what led up to the manhattan project. what happened during it and when the bombs were dropped. It was resourceful because it gave me the main events and a lot of information ushistory.org. U.S. History. The Manhattan Project. Independence Hall Association, n.d. Web. 31 January 2013. This website helped me find information about the scientists and how they worked together to make the bomb. It was helpful because I also found interesting facts on how the bombs changed Japan.

Wikipedia Commons. (2011). [Map of major sites in the U.S. and Canada involved with the Manhattan Project]. Map of major sites in the U.S and Canada involved with the Manhattan Project. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Manhattan_Project_US_Canada_Map_2.svg. This is a map of the places that contributed to WWI. It helped me because I can know how each place contributed.