The atomic bomb :the story of the Manhattan Project : how nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer /

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"Version: 20140601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a surveyThe background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioactivity and new elements -- Nuclear fission : discovery -- Nuclear fission : interpretation -- PlutoniumThe Manhattan Project -- Szilard, Einstein, the President and MAUD -- The Compton committee and the Manhattan Engineer District -- Bomb design : Los Alamos -- Uranium enrichment : the Clinton Engineer Works -- Plutonium : the pile program -- TrinityHiroshima and Nagasaki -- Target selection -- Postwar planning begins -- The missions -- AftermathThe Legacy of Manhattan and current nuclear weapons deployments -- Postwar political developments -- The super and the P-5 -- Nuclear tests, deployments and treaties -- Epilogue.This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges faced and overcome in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Senior high school/early undergraduate/trade with interest in science, history, and legacy of the Manhattan Project.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.B. Cameron Reed is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics at Alma College, Alma, Michigan. In addition to a quantum mechanics text and two other books on the Manhattan Project, he has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals in areas such as astronomy, data analysis, quantum physics, nuclear physics, and the history of physics. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "For his contributions to the history of both the physics and the development of nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project."Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 1, 2015).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9781627059916

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Nuclear physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Atomic bomb

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