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The Los Alamos Primer
- The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes
Engelsk Paperback
The Los Alamos Primer
- The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes
Engelsk Paperback

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More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man, were introduced to the basic principles and goals of the project in March 1943, at a crash course in new weapons technology. The lecturer was physicist Robert Serber, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s protégé, and the scientists learned that their job was to design and build the world’s first atomic bombs. Notes on Serber’s lectures were gathered into a mimeographed document titled TheLos Alamos Primer, which was supplied to all incoming scientific staff. The Primer remained classified for decades after the war. Published for the first time in 1992, the Primer offers contemporary readers a better understanding of the origins of nuclear weapons. Serber’s preface vividly conveys the mingled excitement, uncertainty, and intensity felt by the Manhattan Project scientists. This edition includes an updated introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Richard Rhodes. A seminal publication on a turning point in human history, The Los Alamos Primer reveals just how much was known and how terrifyingly much was unknown midway through the Manhattan Project. No other seminar anywhere has had greater historical consequences.  
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9780520344174
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0520344170
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Udg. Dato:
7 apr 2020
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
209mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
7 apr 2020
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