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• Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Jayita Sarkar (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Jayita Sarkar (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Creating the New World: Stories and Images From the Dawn of the Atomic Age (second edition, c2004), by Theodore Rockwell (page images at Google)

• Atomic Shield, 1947-1952 (second volume of an ongoing history of the United States Atomic Energy Commission; University Park, PA and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969), by Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New World, 1939-1946 (first volume of an ongoing history of the United States Atomic Energy Commission; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962), by Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Creating the New World: Stories and Images From the Dawn of the Atomic Age (second edition, c2004), by Theodore Rockwell (page images at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Nuclear Physics (1986), by National Research Council Physics Survey Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Introduction to Nuclear Physics and Chemistry (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), by Bernard G. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory ("Part I" typescript, published before full 1966 textbook; c1961), by John R. Lamarsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic Principles of Nuclear Science and Reactors (Princeton et al: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1960), by Alan M. Jacobs, D. E. Kline, and Forrest Jerome Remick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementary Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Physics (title page missing; c1960), by S. E. Liverhant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of Modern Physics (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1959), by Robert B. Leighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theoretical Nuclear Physics (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1952), by John Markus Blatt and Victor Frederick Weisskopf (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics (2 volumes; 2011-2015), by David J. Raymond (illustrated HTML with commentary at nmt.edu)
• Nuclear Physics: The Core of Matter, The Fuel of Stars, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Nuclear Power Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by M. M. El-Wakil (page images at HathiTrust)

• High-Energy Astrophysics: American and Soviet Perspectives (1991), by U.S.-USSR Workshop on High-Energy Astrophysics (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management (1997), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Elementary-Particle Physics: Revealing the Secrets of Energy and Matter, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (with early issues published as Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams; 1998-) (full serial archives)

• Transition Curves of 330 Mev Bremsstrahlung (Berkeley, CA: University of California Radiation Laboratory, 1950), by Wade Blocker, Robert W. Kenney, and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Nuclear Science (full serial archives)
• Radiological Physics Division Annual Report, by Argonne National Laboratory Radiological Physics Division (partial serial archives)

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science (partial serial archives)
• Annual Review of Nuclear Science (full serial archives)

• The 3-j and 6-j Symbols (Cambridge, MA: Technology Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959), by Manuel Rotenberg, R. Bivins, N. Metropolis, and John K. Wooten (page images at HathiTrust)

• Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (1892), by Nikola Tesla (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Nuclear Radiation Detection (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by William J. Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nuclear Power: Villain or Victim? (second edition; Madison: Pebble Beack Publishers, c2006), by Max Carbon (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• I Have Been to the Village (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1948), by Daniel Q. Posin, contrib. by Albert Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Challenge (Headline Series #63; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1947), by William A. Higinbotham and Ernest Kidder Lindley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards (2 volumes; 1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume I (main report): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II, part 1 (Appendixes I-V): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • Volume II, part 2 (Appendices VI-IX): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (aka the Acheson Report; 1946), by United States Department of State Committee on Atomic Energy, contrib. by Dean Acheson
  • page images at HathTtrust
  • reprint: PDF at cia.gov
• The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2018), by Naoto Kan, trans. by Brett de Bary (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 (slightly updated version of GPO edition; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945 (Washington: GPO, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuclear Flight: The United States Air Force Programs for Atomic Jets, Missiles, and Rockets (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1960), ed. by Kenneth Franklin Gantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Atom Spies (New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1952), by Oliver Pilat (page images at HathiTrust)

• Atoms for Peace Manual: A Compilation of Official Materials on International Cooperation for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, December 1953-July 1955 (Washington: GPO, 1955), ed. by Julius N. Cahn, contrib. by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuclear Power Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by M. M. El-Wakil (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dynamic Nuclear Orientation (New York et al.: Interscience Publishers, 1963), by C. D. Jeffries (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nuclear Power Engineering (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by M. M. El-Wakil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory ("Part I" typescript, published before full 1966 textbook; c1961), by John R. Lamarsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic Principles of Nuclear Science and Reactors (Princeton et al: D. Van Nostrand Co., c1960), by Alan M. Jacobs, D. E. Kline, and Forrest Jerome Remick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementary Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Physics (title page missing; c1960), by S. E. Liverhant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buildup of Cf-252 and Intermediate Isotopes from Cm-244 in a High Flux (Argonne, IL: Argonne National Laboratory, 1961), by Susanne E. Vandenbosch and Paul R. Fields (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dynamic Nuclear Orientation (New York et al.: Interscience Publishers, 1963), by C. D. Jeffries (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration, by Stanley Humphries (PDF files at UNM)

• Elementary-Particle Physics: Revealing the Secrets of Energy and Matter, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

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