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Robert S. Norris Collection http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1580320r No online items Preliminary Inventory of the Robert S. Norris collection Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 2008 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Preliminary Inventory of the 2008C9 1 Robert S. Norris collection Title: Robert S. Norris collection Date (inclusive): 1898-2003 Collection Number: 2008C9 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 88 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes(45.0 Linear Feet) Abstract: Photocopies of government documents, correspondence, diaries, reports, memoranda, studies, and printed matter; microfilm; and sound recordings and transcripts of interviews relating to General Leslie R. Groves and the development of the atomic bomb. Used as research material for the book by R. S. Norris, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man (South Royalton, Vt., 2002). Includes photocopies of documents released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Creator: Norris, Robert S. (Robert Stan) Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2008. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Robert S. Norris collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Biographical Note Dr. Robert S. Norris is a senior research associate with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington, D.C. His principal areas of expertise include all aspects of the nuclear weapons programs of the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. Dr. Norris received his PhD in political science from New York University in 1976 and has taught at New York University; Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; Miami University's European campus in Luxembourg; and American University in Washington, D.C. He has been with the NRDC since 1984 and lives in Annapolis, Maryland. Robert S. Norris NRDC web page, http://www.nrdc.org/nuclear/norris/norris.asp Scope and Content of Collection The files in the Robert S. Norris collection were used as research material by Norris in the writing of Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan's Project's Indispensable Man, published by Steerforth Press in 2002. The files also contain material about the Manhattan Project and related matters. The files consist of mostly Xerox copies of files from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Library of Congress (LOC), Truman Presidential Library, Hoover Presidential Library, The Bancroft Library, Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hagley Library, West Point Special Collections, and the Los Alamos archives. A great deal of material comes from Record Group 77, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Engineer District (MED) files and from RG 200, the Personal Papers of General Leslie R. Groves. Two useful NARA microfilm collections from RG 77 are included, the Harrison-Bundy Files (9 rolls) and "Top Secret" correspondence of special interest to General Groves (5 rolls). The collection is organized into series, retaining the donor's folder titles and arrangement of supporting materials for the book chapters and related research files. Subjects and Indexing Terms World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan Atomic bomb World War, 1939-1945 -- United States Nuclear weapons United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Groves, Leslie R., 1896-1970 Preliminary Inventory of the 2008C9 2 Robert S. Norris collection Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan's Project's Indispensable Man Supportin... Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan's Project's Indispensable Man Supporting Materials Scope and Contents note Arranged by book chapter Introduction, Chapters 1-4 box 65 Chapter 3, Dick Defending His Future box 65 Chapter 4, West Point box 65 At the Top of His Game box 66 Introduction, Chapters 1-4 box 67 Introductions, Chapters 1-4 box 66 For My Grandchildren and drafts box 35 Chapter 5, Military engineering, Leslie R. Groves, letters from Europe box 35 Chapter 6, Vermont records, Nicaragua Chapter 7 box 34 Fort Peck box 34 Chapter 7, Learning the Ropes 1931-1941 box 34 Haviland box 33 Chapter 8, Finishing School, Leavenworth, Army War College Chapter 9, Construction Corps letters box 33 Leslie R. Groves comments on Fine and Remington box 88 Fine and Remington interviews box 88 Japanese internment box 88 CE box 88 Pentagon box 33 Chapter 9 Chapter 10, NAS reports box 88 National Academy Reports May, July, November 1941 box 88 Chapter 10, Decision to Build Chapter 11, Silver program box 89 Priorities, Chapter 11 box 89 [unnamed folder] Chapter 11, Hanford, Oak Ridge Scope and Contents Boxes 41-43 box 41 Contractors box 41 Uranium Separation Methods box 41 Heavy Water box 41 Labor Relations box 41 Patents box 41 Pile Construction box 41 Pile Research box 42 Silver program box 42 Oak Ridge box 41 Holston box 43 Chapter 11, His Own Construction box 43 V-12 Chapter 12, Los Alamos National Lab archive A-84-019 documents box 44 Stockpile, LANL Archives 1946 box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1986 April 4 box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1987 October 10 box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1987 March 3 box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1988 February 18 box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1987 June 30 box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1993 June 18 box 44 No Cover Letter, File A, Los Alamos Archives Preliminary Inventory of the 2008C9 3 Robert S. Norris collection Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan's Project's Indispensable Man Supportin... box 44 Cover Letter, Los Alamos Archives 1986 December 2 box 45 Naval Propulsion box 45 JRO Letters, LOC box 45 University of California, LANL, Underhill box 46 Dudley and Los Alamos 1942 November box 46 Chapter 12, Los Alamos estab Chapters 13 and 14, Moe Berg, files from Record Group (RG) 226, RG 77 from Jeff Richelson, Azusa, Ramona box 54 CIG Inventory [2 folders] box 54 Lansdale Autobiography and Other Files box 54 Moe Berg [2 Folders] box 55 Intelligence, General box 55 Compartmentalization box 55 Interchange box 55 Security box 55 Official Intelligence Histories box 55 Counter Intelligence box 55 Allen May Affair 1946 box 55 Air Priority Interchange, Chapter 13 box 55 Arthur Hale box 55 British Mission box 55 David Irving box 56 Chapter 13, Intel box 56 Other Secret Programs box 56 Secrecy, Declass box 56 Office of Press Censorship box 56 Groves and J Edgar Hoover and FBI box 56 Peter de Silva box 56 Interchange Between Sites, Compartments Chapter 14 box 38 Alsos box 37 Intelligence, foreign box 37 French problem box 37 German bomb box 37 Boris Pash box 36 London Liaison Office, Alsos box 36 Oranienberg box 36 Farm Hall, Peppermint [2 Folders] box 36 Vemork box 38 Dahlem bombing Samuel Goudsmit material box 39 Goudsmit - Alsos Reports box 39 State of Europe - Series - Postwar box 39 Goudsmit - Science and Totalitarianism box 39 Intelligence box 39 Goudsmit Physics Articles Brookhaven box 39 P Jordan to Bohr - KP 1945 April box 39 Alsos, "Atomic Report," TV lake view with S Goudsmit 1949 July 24 box 39 Brookhaven box 39 Goudsmit - Rosebed box 39 Irving/Goudsmit box 39 Goudsmit on "Physics Appreciat" box 39 [Colby/Goudsmit] box 39 Goudsmit Articles - Spin box 39 Kromish/Goudsmit box 39 Goudsmit- Oral History [2 folders] box 39 [Goudsmit - Biographical Material] box 39 [AIP Center for History of Physics Goudsmit Finding Aid] Preliminary Inventory of the 2008C9 4 Robert S. Norris collection Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan's Project's Indispensable Man Supportin... box 40 Samuel Goudsmit Papers - AIP box 40 Goudsmit as Editor of Physical Review box 40 Goudsmit Pre-Alsos box 40 Goudsmit - Betatron box 40 Goudsmit Loltors [Home?] - Alsos box 40 Goudsmit - Physical Review Letter box 40 NARA Inventory, Goudsmit Material box 40 Clark- Goudsmit box 40 Goudsmit FBI File Chapter 16 box 48 Combined Development Trust box 48 Boris Pregel box 48 Truman Committee box 48 Combined Policy Committee box 48 Uranium box 49 Diplomatic History of the Manhattan Project and Combined Development Trust (CDT) meetings [2 folders] box 47 International Control, Ore box 47 Groves Banking and CDT box 47 US Canada cooperation box 47 Bureau of Budget box 48 Paul Guarin Chapters 17 and 18 box 47 Chapter 17, Family During the War [2 folders] box 47 Chapter 18, Supplying Atomic Fuels box 47 Thermal Diffusion, S-50 Chapters 19 and 20 box 70 Camel box 70 Special Table - Codes box 70 Indianapolis box 70 Shipping schedules box 70 Tinian cables box 70 History of Project A, Ramsey box 70 Orders and cables box 69 Casualties and effects box 69 Duplicates box 69 Interim Committee box 69 Hiroshima box 69 Third Bomb box 69 Target Committee box 69 Farrell and propaganda / leaflets box 69 Reasons for Use, Chapter 19 box 69 Silverplate and B-29s box 68 General Hap Arnold box 68 Norman Ramsey box 68 Nagasaki box 68 1st Technical Services Detachment box 68 Fat Man box 68 "Always the Target" box 68 509th CG box 68 Little Boy box 68 Little Boy Gun docs, LANL box 87 Oppenheimer box 87 Oppenheimer/Leslie R. Groves letters box 87 Oppenheimer Bio box 86 Jumbo box 85 Trinity box 85 Trinity articles Preliminary Inventory of the 2008C9 5 Robert S.
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