The History and Science of the Manhattan Project
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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