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

The Los Alamos primer : the first lectures on how to build an atomic bomb / Robert Serber ; annotated by Robert Serber ; edited with an introduction by Richard Rhodes.

In April 1943, at a new secret laboratory on a mesa in the high New Mexican desert, a crowd of the most brilliant young scientists in America heard five stunning lectures that summed up everything the world knew about how to build an atomic bomb. The lecturer was Robert Serber, a theoretical physici...

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Main Author: Serber, R. (Robert)
Other Authors: Rhodes, Richard, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory > History.
Atomic bomb > United States > History.
Physicists > Biography.
Biography.
History.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information

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