The atomic bomb : the story of the Manhattan Project : how nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer /

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 isoto...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, Bruce Cameron (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA): Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History.
Atomic bomb > United States > History.
Nuclear physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction and overview
  • Prologue
  • Some scientific preliminaries
  • The Manhattan Project : a survey
  • The background science
  • Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes
  • The neutron, artificial radioactivity and new elements
  • Nuclear fission : discovery
  • Nuclear fission : interpretation
  • Plutonium
  • The Manhattan Project
  • Szilard, Einstein, the President and MAUD
  • The Compton committee and the Manhattan Engineer District
  • Bomb design : Los Alamos
  • Uranium enrichment : the Clinton Engineer Works
  • Plutonium : the pile program
  • Trinity
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Target selection
  • Postwar planning begins
  • The missions
  • Aftermath
  • The Legacy of Manhattan and current nuclear weapons deployments
  • Postwar political developments
  • The super and the P-5
  • Nuclear tests, deployments and treaties
  • Epilogue.

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