2-1 Finding Primary Sources PDF

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Ashley Caserta

1. Describe your overall experience of locating these primary sources. Was it challenging or straightforward? Did you learn anything interesting along the way? 2. Were you able to locate an interview with Tom Evans, a close friend of President Truman's, who interacted with scientists who were trying to reach Truman with their campaign against the use of the atomic bomb? Share your search terms and a link to the primary source. 3. Were you able to locate a petition against the use of the atomic bomb circulated by Szilard directed toward President Truman? Share your search terms and a link to the primary source. 4. Were you able to locate an interview with Lilli Hornig, a scientist who signed Szilard's petition against the use of the atomic bomb? Share your search terms and a link to the primary source.

The experience of locating these primary sources was pretty much straight forward. For me, it wasn’t too hard finding each source required. I don’t know too much about the atomic bomb so it was interesting to find out there was a petition for it. For the interview with Tom Evans, I used the Truman Library Archives and typed “interview Tom Evans.” The first article that popped up was titled: Oral History Interview with Tom L. Evans. The link is: “https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/evans4.htm”. I tried to find other interviews but could only manage to find this interview. For the petition against the atomic bomb, I used the National Security Archive with the search terms “petition+bomb and went on to read the first article titled “The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II- A Collection of Primary Sources.” The link is https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm. I then went further into this article and down towards the bottom of the article it brings up some documents for further reading. I started looking through them and got to section 4. This section is called “The Japanese search for the Soviet Meditation. Document 34 brings up the petition Szilard circulated with the intent to discourage use of the bomb (https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/34.pdf).

The interview with Lilli Hornig was the easiest and quickest to find. I used the Voices of Manhattan Project search and used the search term “interview Lilli Hornig” and the first link that showed up was an video interview with her (https://www.manhattanprojectvoices.org/oralhistories/lilli-hornigs-interview)....