Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project. Bruce Cameron Reed

Техническая литература. IOP Concise Physics

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Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project


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isbn 9781627059923

Автор произведения Bruce Cameron Reed

Жанр Техническая литература

Серия IOP Concise Physics

Издательство Ingram


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.