Includes bibliographical references (page 64)

Spreading the word / selections from Time and Albert Einstein -- The first self-sustaining chain reaction / Herbert L. Anderson -- One glimpse of life at Los Alamos / Laura Fermi -- Trinity / selections from William L. Laurence, Enrico Fermi and The Albuquerque tribune -- Hiroshima / Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. as told to Wesley Price -- Nagasaki / William L. Laurence -- Victims / John Hersey and Yohko Kuwabara -- The world transformed / J. Robert Oppenheimer