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• The Virus House, by David John Cawdell Irving (zipped PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)

• 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)

• Manhattan District History (36 volumes; redacted declassified version, released 2013), by Manhattan Engineer District, ed. by Gavin Hadden (PDF files at osti.gov)

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

• Secret (Detroit: Chrysler Corp., 1947), by Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• I Have Been to the Village (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1948), by Daniel Q. Posin, contrib. by Albert Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy, by United States Department of State Committee on Atomic Energy (HTML with commentary at learnworld.com)

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• The Pallid Giant: A Tale of Yesterday and Tomorrow (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1927), by Pierrepont Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Atomic Bomb Survivors and Their Children (1945-1995) (1998), ed. by Leif E. Peterson and Seymour Abrahamson (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack (1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)
• Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives, by United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Gutenberg text)

• Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test (1996), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Radiological Assessments for Resettlement of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (1994), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (c2013), ed. by Tomoko M. Nakanishi and Keitaro Tanoi (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• 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)

• Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• University of California Publications in History (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Theological Studies (partial serial archives)
• Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany (partial serial archives)
• Beacon Lights of History (15 volumes, 1902), by John Lord (Gutenberg and archive.org volumes)
• Collected Papers: Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous (5 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1921), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eye-Witness (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Harvard Historical Studies (partial serial archives)
• Historic Oddities and Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1889), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Mysteries (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Sketches (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906-9), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume III: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Historische Werke (15 volumes in German; 1821-1828), by A. H. L. Heeren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Man in History: An Oration for the Columbian Year (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1893), by John Clark Ridpath (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The New History: Essays Illustrating The Modern Historical Outlook (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Secrets of the Past (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Allen Upward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Great Events in History (Historical series book 4 part 2; New York: D. Appleton, 1887), by James Johonnot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold, by James Baldwin (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Reviews in History (1996-) (full serial archives)

• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

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