Lillian Hoddeson

Critical Assembly

A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943 1945
Herausgeber: Henriksen, Paul W.; Westfall, Catherine L.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 999g
• ISBN-13: 9780521441322
• ISBN-10: 0521441323
• Artikelnr.: 22361815

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Early research on fission, and overview: 1933-43
3. The early materials program: 1933-43
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.