Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project

How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer

By:

Bruce Cameron Reed

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Iop Concise Physics

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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.

Author Biography:

B. Cameron Reed is the Charles A Dana Professor of Physics at Alma College, Alma, Michigan, USA. In addition to a quantum mechanics text and two other books on the Manhattan Project, he has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals in areas such as astronomy, data analysis, quantum physics, nuclear physics, and the history of physics. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "For his contributions to the history of both the physics and the development of nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project".

Release date Australia

June 30th, 2015

Author

Bruce Cameron Reed

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

142

Series

Iop Concise Physics

Dimensions

175x254x8

ISBN-13

9781627059909

Product ID

23407454

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