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de Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade


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This volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs. The authors explore how the "critical assembly" of scientists, engineers, and military personnel at Los Alamos, responding to wartime deadlines, collaborated to create a new approach to large-scale research. The book opens with an introduction laying out major themes. After a synopsis of the prehistory of the bomb project, from the discovery of nuclear fission to the start of the Manhattan Engineer District, and an overview of the early materials program, the book examines the establishment of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the implosion and gun assembly programs, nuclear physics research, chemistry and metallurgy, explosives, uranium and plutonium development, confirmation of spontaneous fission in pile-produced plutonium, the thermonuclear bomb, critical assemblies, the Trinity test, and delivery of the combat weapons.

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Following the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, scientists in Germany, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States began to investigate the possibility of exploiting this energy source for military purposes.

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Unlike earlier histories of Los Alamos, this book treats in detail the research and development that led to the implosion and gun weapons; the research in nuclear physics, chemistry, and metallurgy that enabled clear bomb, the 'Super.'

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  • Título Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
  • Autor Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade
  • Encuadernación Tapa dura
  • Edición 4th Printing 199
  • Páginas 528
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Cambridge University Press, New York
  • Fecha de publicación 1993-05-28
  • ISBN 9780521441322 / 0521441323
  • Peso 1.8 libras (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensiones 9.32 x 6.38 x 1.27 pulgadas (23.67 x 16.21 x 3.23 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory - History, Atomic bomb - New Mexico - Los Alamos -
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 92036611
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.451
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. xv, [1], 509, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Name Index. Subject Index. Lillian Hartman Hoddeson (born 20 December 1940, in New York City) is an American historian of science, specializing in the history of physics and technology during the 2nd half of the 20th century. Hoddeson received in 1957 a high school diploma from the Bronx High School of Science, in 1961 a bachelor's degree in physics from Barnard College, and in 1966 a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. She was an assistant professor of physics from 1967 to 1970 at Barnard College and from 1971 to 1976 at Rutgers University. In 1974-1975 she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and took Thomas Kuhn's "History of Quantum Mechanics" course. From 1977 to 1992 she held academic positions at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, before becoming there an associate professor from 1993 to 2000 and a full professor from 2000 until her… Leer más
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