UID:
almafu_9958132541002883
Format:
1 online resource (various pagings) :
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illustrations (some color).
ISBN:
1-62705-992-X
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1-62705-991-1
Series Statement:
IOP concise physics,
Content:
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.
Note:
"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso.
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"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
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Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a survey
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The background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioactivity and new elements -- Nuclear fission : discovery -- Nuclear fission : interpretation -- Plutonium
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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
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Target selection -- Postwar planning begins -- The missions -- Aftermath
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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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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-62705-990-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1088/978-1-6270-5991-6
URL:
http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6270-5991-6
