John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr s "The Quantum Postulate"; the "Blegdamsvej Faust," a parody of Goethe s "Faust" that cast physicists as its principle characters; "The Los Alamos Primer," the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard s post-war novella, "The Voice of the Dolphins.""