The History and Science of the Manhattan Project

The History and Science of the Manhattan Project by Bruce Cameron Reed.

The development of atomic bombs under the auspices of the U. S. Army’s Manhattan Project during World War II is considered to be the outstanding news story of the twentieth century. In this book, a physicist and expert on the history of the Project presents a comprehensive overview of this momentous...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reed, Bruce Cameron (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Nuclear physics.
Heavy ions.
Physics.
Nuclear chemistry.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and Overview
  • A Short History of Nuclear Physics to the Mid-1930s
  • The Discovery and Interpretation of Nuclear Fission
  • Organizing the Manhattan Project, 1939-1943
  • Oak Ridge, CP-1, and the Clinton Engineer Works
  • The Hanford Engineer Works
  • Los Alamos, Trinity, and Tinian
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • The Legacy of Manhattan
  • Glossary.

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