8. Civilian Atomic Energy, Part 1, 1945-1989.

FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN, translated from the Russian.

An interesting early look at the potential future of atomic energy.

Account of the growth of the British atomic industry, "in the face of American legislation which excluded her from any fair share in the fruits of their war-time collaboration." -Foreword.

Includes catalogues from The Printer's Devil, Liebling & Levitas, Donald N. Dupley, Wayne O. Moye, Bolerium Books, Peninsula Books, William & Victoria Dailey, Key Books, James Cummins, William J. Delp, Broadway Books, and Howard Karno.

Nearly complete file of perhaps the single most important journal for documenting both the arms race and the growth and development of atomic energy, and changing attitudes towards them. Lacks only volumes 1, 3 & 22. The early issues of this journal, before 1956 in particular, are quite scarce.

"A discussion of the general nature and possible products- and by-products-of a commercial atomic power plant."

Narrated by Chet Huntley and Glenn T. Seaborg, this set features the actual recorded voices of J.J. Thompson, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Otto Frisch, Otto Hahn, Herbert Anderson, Enrico Fermi, and other notables.

2 chapters on the future of atomic energy.

Franklin Medal Lecture, read November 16, 1945, in the Symposium on Atomic Energy and its Implications.

Off-printed from "Scientific American."

Includes discussion of nuclear propulsion, portable nuclear reactors, nuclear disarmament and control, and nuclear warheads.

Comprises Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 290, November 1953.

Apparently issued without title-page. Collects articles by Watson Davis, J.A. Wheeler, Glenn T. Seaborg, Ernest O. Lawrence, I.I. Rabi, Helen M. Davis, et al.

PRESENTATION COPY, signed by Dean, and with a lengthy inscription to "Dear Governor" (i.e. Adlai Stevenson), calling his attention to the section of text dealing with the problem of nuclear testing and arms control.

The "After Chernobyl" edition.

PRESENTATION COPY, signed & inscribed by Dietz to William L. Sloan II.

First Czechoslovakian edition of Atomic Energy in the Coming Era.

Includes material relating to France not in the English edition.

Texts of a series of radio talks given 1952-1953.

Glossy public relations information packet on the newly constructed 54 megawatt reactor at Dodewaard, Netherlands.

The original program for the ground breaking, as handed out to those attending the ceremony. A very scarce piece of nuclear ephemera.

The first book on atomic energy published in Columbia. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the Author to the Clinton Engineer Works.

The first book illustrated by Sendak.

Translation by Fritz Levi of Atomics for the Millions.

Penned on the front cover, "Heslep Master Copy." Heslep was in charge of the USIS Press, Radio & Television branch at the conference.

Includes Kerr-McGee's version of the Karen Silkwood story.

Comprises Soviet News Booklet No. 2.

The "Raytomic S-100 Scintillation Counter." This is an attractive, near-professional grade instrument, "the best scintillation counter you can buy in this price range." The classic 1950's design is evocative of the grade B science fiction films of the period.

Typical of the inexpensive counters produced in response to the "uranium rush" of the early 1950's. The box is lettered with the blurbs "Safe to Use. Find Uranium Ore Deposits. Earn $35,000 Gov'nt Rewards. No Experience Required," etc. The "Radioactive Sample" is not present.

A public relations handout for GE's Atomic Energy exhibit, demonstrating "The Modern Miracle of Atomic Power," with the attendant utopian visions.

The panel consists of Rev. Francis J. Heyden, S.J., Director, Georgetown College Observatory; Dr. Charles Saylor, National Bureau of Standards; and Charles Heslep, Division of Internal Affairs, Atomic Energy Commission. Moderators are Matthew Warren and Frank Blair. As far as we have been able to determine, no other recording of this program is known to exist.

Survey of atomic energy facilities in the BENELUX region, by the director of Reactor Centrum Nederland.

Excellent history of Scandanavian-Dutch collaboration in nuclear energy R & D.

Attempts to rebut the belief that atomic energy developments are shrouded in secrecy.

A very good capsule history of the Manhattan Project, atomic testing, and other developments to 1950, including a number of lesser-known anecdotes. Presents a very glowing vision of the future of atomic energy. This is an excellent primary document of the kind of public relations efforts made at the time by the AEC at the grassroots level.

This was Heslep's last speech for the AEC. Presents a very upbeat view of atomic energy. Tries to dispel the "persistent myths of atomic energy. . .that everything is secret." Includes a strong pitch for food irradiation, and admits that after the war, "atomic energy was oversold. . .pretty badly." Includes a lengthy discussion of the Atoms For Peace program in the third world.

A very candid view of the 1955" Atoms for Peace" conference by the highest level officer of the USAEC's Public Information Service.

Heslep was one of the chief ghost writers for the AEC. In addition to numerous papers and speeches for AEC officials and congressmen, etc., he reveals here that he ghosted Admiral Leahy's memoirs (published as I Was There), and 4 of the 8 "specialist" articles on atomic energy for the Encyclopedia Britannica 1955 Yearbook.

OUTSTANDING ARCHIVE of very candid material from the AEC's top-ranking public information officer. The letters were written by Heslep from various locations around the world while in pursuit of his duties, and are full of observations of the inside workings of the AEC. One series of letters covers the days surrounding Heslep's oversight of the first public televising of an atomic test, and presents an entirely different view of events than that recorded in Heslep's officially published accounts. Other material relates to meetings with the likes of Henry Kissinger, Harold Stassen, & Lewis Strauss, gossip relating to the Oppenheimer affair, the opening of the Shippingport reactor, an award ceremony for Richard Feynman, etc., etc.

Comprises a history of atomic energy developments from the Manhattan Project to 1954, with a survey of current and potential future activities, followed by a question-and-answer session. An unusually candid glimpse of the day-to-day workings of the AEC's Division of Information Services.

A printed label in one of the boxes reads "Special Dubbing-For: Mrs. Ruth Howell Walker, City Library, Lampasas, Texas," and with the printed label of "Voice of America United States Information Agency" affixed to one of the boxes.

With pencilled note at the top in Heslep's hand - "1st Speech material I ever prepared for the White House." This is the draft text of a speech ghost-written by Heslep for President Eisenhower for the ceremony inaugurating the Shippingport power reactor.

A high school text book. Contributors include J.R. Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Albert Einstein, and others.

Outstanding encyclopedic dictionary, excellent tool for sorting the labyrinth of U.S. and international policies and developments in both peaceful and military aspects of atomic energy. Participates in the usual degree of disinformation - e.g. the account of the "Lucky Dragon" incident attributes the one death to hepatitis, and still maintains the erroneous assertion that the ship was within the Restricted Zone.

A glossy paper "coffee-table" book. Dedication by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Preface by Lewis L. Strauss.

"Loose-leaf edition-de-luxe." Atomic mutation experiments for the amateur gardener.

Analysis of the prospects and dangers of nuclear power for the Balkan states.

Textbook of course taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

A RAND RESEARCH publication.

An utopian vision of "the conquering of disease, the postponement of old age and the prolongation of life."

Presentation copy, signed & inscribed by the Author.

A good short history of the Spanish atomic energy program. Scarce.

"Atomenergi," pp. 225-257.

Presentation copy, inscribed from the Author to Dr. W.A. Pollard.

echtel built half of all the nuclear power plants in the world. Caspar Weinberger was formerly Bechtel's general counsel; George Schultz was Bechtel Group President.

Defense of nuclear power against its critics.

Focuses on the long-running controversy over suspected earthquake faults near the nation's first corporately owned nuclear test reactor at Vellecitos, California.

A souvenir of the USAEC exhibit at the New York World's Fair.

A slick public relations information (or perhaps more accurately disinformation) brochure for New England residents, "paid for by NU customers."

Interesting series of papers for the layman, by Lapp, Libby, and others.

The degree "confers the privilege of absorbing one-tenth roentgens per day and radiating neutrinos of traceable knowledge." Signed by William G. Pollard & Ralph Overman in the lower right corner.

A glossy public relations pamphlet, with 2 related brochures inserted. In the original mailing envelope.

Parsons was chief of the Ordnance Division during the Manhattan Project.

Uncorrected "pre-publicity" galley proof.

Chronology of events from December 8, 1953-June 30, 1958. From the Heslep archive.

"2nd (revised) edition." First published in 1955.

Lectures given at the University of London by John Cockroft, Otto Frisch, and others.

Includes Hans Bethe on the Hydrogen Bomb.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM SEABORG TO LEWIS STRAUSS. Seaborg was the discoverer of plutonium, and chief of the section on transuranium elements at the Manhattan project. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1951 with Edwin M. McMillan.

Issue also includes a report on a Mobile Military Reactor, in the regular Nuclear Energy column, p. 257.

PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Seaborg to Lewis L. Strauss.

Includes "Atomic Energy" by A.E. Johns, pp. 177-190; "Plutonium and Other Transuranium Elements," by Glenn T. Seaborg, pp. 207-216; and, "The Biology of Bikini Atoll," by Leonard P. Schultz, pp. 301-316.

"Based upon material from the booklets in the series Understanding the Atom, produced under the aegis of the USAEC."

Text by various members of the Staff of the University of Pennsylvania.

Includes "The Atomic Future, Hartford, Connecticut, Bushnell Memorial Hall, September 18, 1952." pp. 92-97.

World survey of nuclear facilities, prepared for the 1975 NPT review conference.

Includes: "Seabrook: A Case Study of the Nuclear Industry's Ebbing Fortunes."

"Operation Bootstrap," the first U.S. breeder reactor program.

Second Edition (revised).

SIGNED BY LEWIS L. STRAUSS & K.E. FIELDS, who presented the awards. This is Charter Heslep's copy, one of the recipients of the Outstanding Service Awards.

Inserted is a typed letter signed by Lewis L. Strauss to I.I. Rabi, presenting this copy to him and noting that "a short special section reports on the United States participation in the International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy-your Conference."

Prepared for the first "Atoms for Peace" conference. Includes a useful "Guide to the Scientific and Technical Literature of the USAEC."

Issue devoted to "Assuring Public Safety in Continental Weapons Tests."