Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project

How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Nuclear Physics, Technology
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Author: Bruce Cameron Reed ISBN: 9781627059923
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers Publication: June 1, 2015
Imprint: IOP Concise Physics Language: English
Author: Bruce Cameron Reed
ISBN: 9781627059923
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Publication: June 1, 2015
Imprint: IOP Concise Physics
Language: English

This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges faced and overcome in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges faced and overcome in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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