The Los Alamos primer the first lectures on how to build an atomic bomb

More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man, were introduced to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Serber, R. (Robert) (Author)
Other Authors: Rhodes, Richard, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland University of California Press [2020]
Subjects:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory > History.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Atomic bomb > United States > History.
Physicists > Biography.
Bombe atomique > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century
Atomic bomb
Physicists
United States
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Los Alamos Primer
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • The Los Alamos Primer
  • 1 Object
  • 2 Energy of Fission Process
  • 3 Fast Neutron Chain Reaction
  • 4 Fission Cross-sections
  • 5 Neutron Spectrum
  • 6 Neutron Number
  • 7 Neutron Capture
  • 8 Why Ordinary U Is Safe
  • 9 Material 49
  • 10 Simplest Estimate of Minimum Size of Bomb
  • 11 Effect of Tamper
  • 12 Damage
  • 13 Efficiency
  • 14 Effect of Tamper on Efficiency
  • 15 Detonation
  • 16 Probability of Predetonation
  • 17 Fizzles
  • 18 Detonating Source
  • 19 Neutron Background
  • 20 Shooting
  • 21 Autocatalytic Methods
  • 22 Conclusion

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