Critical assembly : a technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945 /

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Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Description:xv, 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1469447
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Other authors / contributors:Hoddeson, Lillian
ISBN:0521441323 (hc)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction --  |g 2.  |t Early Research on Fission: 1933-1943 --  |g 3.  |t The Early Materials Program: 1933-1943 --  |g 4.  |t Setting Up Project Y: June 1942 to March 1943 --  |g 5.  |t Research in the First Months of Project Y: April to September 1943 --  |g 6.  |t Creating a Wartime Community: September 1943 to August 1944 --  |g 7.  |t The Gun Weapon: September 1943 to August 1944 --  |g 8.  |t The Implosion Program Accelerates: September 1943 to July 1944 --  |g 9.  |t New Hopes for the Implosion Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 --  |g 10.  |t The Nuclear Properties of a Fission Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 --  |g 11.  |t Uranium and Plutonium: Early 1943 to August 1944 --  |g 12.  |t The Discovery of Spontaneous Fission in Plutonium and the Reorganization of Los Alamos --  |g 13.  |t Building the Uranium Bomb: August 1944 to July 1945 --  |g 14.  |t Exploring the Plutonium Implosion Weapon: August 1944 to February 1945 --  |g 15.  |t Finding the Implosion Design: August 1944 to February 1945 --  |g 16.  |t Building the Implosion Gadget: March 1945 to July 1945 --  |g 17.  |t Critical Assemblies and Nuclear Physics: August 1944 to July 1945 --  |g 18.  |t The Test at Trinity: January 1944 to July 1945 --  |g 19.  |t Delivery: June 1943 to August 1945 --  |g 20.  |t The Legacy of Los Alamos. 
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