BRADBURY NORRIS EDWIN: (1909-1997) American Physicist and Director of the Los Alamos National ...

BRADBURY NORRIS EDWIN: (1909-1997) American Physicist and Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory 1945-70. Bradbury succeeded Oppenheimer who appointed him after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during WWII. Bradbury was in charge of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in 1945. An interesting T.L.S., `N.E. Bradbury´, one page, 4to, 8th July 1990. Bradbury responds to three questions written in the hand of a collector to the upper part of the document and states in part `I am not famous nor do I consider any of my activities necessarily ''masterpieces''.´ Bearing to the verso two official Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory ink stamps, one for the reception and one for the document dispatched. With a lengthy, small writing, Bradbury´s biography at the base of the document and few lines to the verso in the hand of the collector. Folded with a very small are of paper loss to the upper edge. G