Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project : How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer (Iop Concise Physics)

Reed, Bruce Cameron

Morgan and Claypool Life Sciences（2015/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 142 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781627059909

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction and Overview
The Background Science
The Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Legacy of Manhattan and Current Nuclear Weapons Deployments
Bibliography and Links