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

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Description:	xv, 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory -- History Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Los Alamos Project Atomic bomb -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- History Atomic bomb. Los Alamos (N.M.) -- History New Mexico -- Los Alamos. History.
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.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Early research on fission, and overview: 1933û1943
3. The early materials program: 1933û1943
4. Setting up project Y: June 1942 to March 1943
5. Research in the first months of project Y: April to September 1943
6. Creating a wartime community: September 1943 to August 1944
7. The gun weapon: September 1943 to August 1944
8. The implosion program accelerates: September 1943 to July 1944
9. New hopes for the implosion weapon: September 1943 to July 1944
10. The nuclear properties of a fission weapon: September 1943 to July 1944
11. Uranium and plutonium: early 1943 to August 1944
12. The discovery of spontaneous fission in plutonium and the reorganisation of Los Alamos
13. Building the uranium bomb: August 1944 to July 1945
14. Exploring the plutonium implosion weapon: August 1944 to February 1945
15. Finding the implosion design: August 1944 to February 1945
16. Building the implosion gadget: March 1945 to July 1945
17. Critical assemblies and nuclear physics: August 1944 to July 1945
18. The test at Trinity: January 1944 to July 1945
19. Delivery: June 1943 to August 1945
20. The legacy of Los Alamos

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