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Atomic bomb: the story of the Manhattan Project : how nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer / Bruce Cameron Reed, Department of Physics, Alma College, Michigan, USA

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: IOP concise physicsPublisher: San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015]Publisher: Bristol : IOP Publ., [2015]Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781627059916
  • 9781627059930
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781627059909. | Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Atomic bomb. San Rafael : Morgan & Claypool Publishers. [2015]MSC: MSC: *81-01 | 81V45 | 00A79RVK: RVK: UB 2445 | UN 5600DOI: DOI: 10.1088/978-1-6270-5991-6Online resources: Summary: 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.PPN: PPN: 829359443Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-IOP | ZDB-135-ICP | ZDB-135-IAL
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