Polenberg, Richard, ed. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Polmar, Norman, and Thomas B. Allen. Rickover: Controversy and Genius. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
Powers, Thomas. Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Prochnau, William W., and Richard W. Larsen. A Certain Democrat: Senator Henry M. Jackson, A Political Biography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972.
Rabi, I. I., Robert Serber, Victor F. Weisskopf, Abraham Pais and Glenn T. Seaborg. Oppenheimer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969.
Reeves, Thomas C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography. New York: Stein & Day, 1982.
Regis, Ed. Who Got Einstein’s Office? Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987.
Reston, James. Deadline: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991.
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
–—. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Rigden, John S. Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Robertson, David. Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes. New York: Norton, 1994.
Roensch, Eleanor Stone. Life Within Limits. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Historical Society, 1993.
Romerstein, Herbert, and Eric Breindel. The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000.
Rosenstone, Robert A. Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Pegasus, 1969.
Royal, Denise. The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1969.
Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: The New Press, 2000.
Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998.
–—. No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Schwartz, Stephen I., ed. Atomic Audit: The Cost and Consequences of U. S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998.