Bradbury, Norris

Bradbury, Norris E. 1949. Peace and the atomic bomb. Pomona College Bulletin, Feb. Bretall, Robert, ed. 1946. A Kierkegaard Anthology, Modem Library. 

Most experiences in life can be comprehended by prior experiences, Norris Bradbury comments, but the atom bomb did not fit into any preconceptions possessed by anybody. ... 

Norris Bradbury, the vigorous Berkeley-trained Navy physicist who had organized the assembly of the Trinity bomb, was replacing Oppenheimer as director. In the months immediately following the war, Bradbury recalled in 1948, the Laboratory struggled for existence and there is no better way to put it ... 

Edward Teller returned to Los Alamos in April 1946 to chair a secret conference. Its purpose, according to a subsequent report, was to review work that has been done on the Super for completeness and accuracy and to make suggestions concerning further work that would be needed in this field if actual construction and test of the Super were plaimed. John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam and Norris Bradbury attended the conference, as did Emil Konopinski, John Manley, Philip Morrison, Canadian theoretician J. Carson Mark and a crowd of other participants. One whose presence would vitally affect U.S. nuclear weapons policy later was Klaus Fuchs. 

Hungarian theorist Edward Teller (left) helped make the plutonium bomb work Navy physicist Norris Bradbury directed its test assembly at Trinity. Teller guided H-bomb theoretical studies at Los Alamos. 

President Kennedy at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, December 1962. To his right is AEC Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg and to his left is Los Alamos Director Norris Bradbury. To Bradbury s left is Senator Clinton P. Anderson. (Credit Library of Congress)... 

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