The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb

* Read * The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb by Robert Serber ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb Josef said Technically sweet.. This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 19Technically sweet. Josef This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 1942 and how to go about turning this knowledge into a practical weapon. Great fun to read if you have an engineering or physics degree or similar background knowledge. The author has extensively annotated and updated the terse original le. Techni

The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb

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Rating : 4.40 (842 Votes)
Asin : 0520075765
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 98 Pages
Publish Date : 2015-10-31
Language : English

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Josef said Technically sweet.. This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 19Technically sweet. Josef This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 1942 and how to go about turning this knowledge into a "practical weapon". Great fun to read if you have an engineering or physics degree or similar background knowledge. The author has extensively annotated and updated the terse original le. "Technically sweet." according to Josef. This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 19Technically sweet. Josef This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 1942 and how to go about turning this knowledge into a "practical weapon". Great fun to read if you have an engineering or physics degree or similar background knowledge. The author has extensively annotated and updated the terse original le. 2 and how to go about turning this knowledge into a "practical weapon". Great fun to read if you have an engineering or physics degree or similar background knowledge. The author has extensively annotated and updated the terse original le. and how to go about turning this knowledge into a "practical weapon". Great fun to read if you have an engineering or physics degree or similar background knowledge. The author has extensively annotated and updated the terse original le. A Reviewer said Fascinating. This is an incredible book. This is originally a compilation of Robert Serber's notes he gave to incoming scientists at Los Alamos in the 19Fascinating A Reviewer This is an incredible book. This is originally a compilation of Robert Serber's notes he gave to incoming scientists at Los Alamos in the 1940s, explaining to them the purpose of the Manhattan Project and the expected means by which they would achieve their goal. This particular copy, courtesy of the University of California Press, con. 0s, explaining to them the purpose of the Manhattan Project and the expected means by which they would achieve their goal. This particular copy, courtesy of the University of California Press, con. Los Alamos Primer John Gordon This book was a new addition to my library on 'Special Weapons'. I've had a long term interest in all things dealing with them. The Los Alamos Primer would have been a great purchase if it had simply consisted of the original lectures. The 4 men who contribute to this work have produced an important book. Richard Rhodes introduced and

Richard Rhodes, author most recently of Farm (1989) and A Hole in the World (1990), won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987), all published by Simon and Schuster.. Robert Serber is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Columbia University

Rhodes's introduction provides a brief history of the development of atomic physics up to the day that Serber stood before his blackboard at Los Alamos. No seminar anywhere has had greater historical consequences.. Could this "gadget," based on the newly discovered principles of nuclear fission, really be designed and built? Could it be small enough and light enough for an airplane to carry? If it could be built, could it be controlled?Working with Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the development of the atomic bomb, Professor Serber has annotated original lecture notes with explanations of the physics terms for the nonspecialist. They are published here for the first time, and now contemporary readers can see just how much was known and how terrifyingly much was unknown when the Manhattan Project began. The classified lectures that galvanized the Manhattan Project scientists—with annotations for the nonspecialist reader and an introduction by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.In March 1943 a group of young scientists, sequestered on a mesa near Santa Fe, attended a crash course in the new atomic physics. The lecturer was Robert Serber, J. Robert Oppenheimer's protégé, and they learned that their job was to invent the world's first atomic bomb.Serber's lecture notes, nicknamed the "Los Alamos Primer," were mimeographed and passed from hand to hand, remaining classified for many years. In t

"The object," he said, "is to produce a practical military weapon in the form of a bomb in which the energy is released by a fast neutron chain reaction in one or more of the materials known to show nuclear fission." That mechanism, of course, was the atomic bomb, which a little more than two years later would be used against Japan. In April 1943, a young physicist named Robert Serber stood up before a small group of fellow scientists in a laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and, as one attendee later recalled, began to speak in "a hazy, uncertain voice" about the project on which they would all be working. (It was, he concluded, always a danger.) At the end of the series, his lecture notes, classified as top secret, were gathered and printed for distribution to later cadres

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