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The atomic bomb
Title statement The atomic bomb : the story of the Manhattan Project : how nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer / Bruce Cameron Reed. [elektronický zdroj] Publication San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA): Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2015] Distribution Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2015] Phys.des. 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color). ISBN 9781627059916 (online) Edition [IOP release 2] IOP concise physics, ISSN 2053-2571 Note "Version: 20140601"--Title page verso. "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Preface -- Introduction and overview -- Prologue -- Some scientific preliminaries -- The Manhattan Project : a survey Content note The background science -- Energy units, nuclear reactions and decay processes -- The neutron, artificial radioactivity and new elements -- Nuclear fission : discovery -- Nuclear fission : interpretation -- Plutonium. The 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 -- Trinity. Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Target selection -- Postwar planning begins -- The missions -- Aftermath. The Legacy of Manhattan and current nuclear weapons deployments -- Postwar political developments -- The super and the P-5 -- Nuclear tests, deployments and treaties -- Epilogue. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Audience Senior high school/early undergraduate/trade with interest in science, history, and legacy of the Manhattan Project. Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web.. Požadavky na systém: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Another responsib. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Institute of Physics (Great Britain), Korporations keywords Manhattan Project (U.S.) - History. Subj. Headings Atomic bomb - United States - History. * Nuclear physics. * SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear. Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Country Kalifornie Language angličtina Document kind Electronic books URL Plný text pro studenty a zaměstnance UPOL 
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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.
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.
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