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The Los Alamos Primer
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: Robert Serber
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and huma
The Los Alamos Primer
Language: en
Pages: 141
Authors: Robert Serber
Categories: Atomic bomb
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Serber has annotated the lectures he gave to those joining the scientific elite in the wilderness of Los Alamos, NM in 1943. This is LA-1, the Los Alamos primer
Critical Assembly
Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: Lillian Hoddeson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.
Particle Physics
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Necia Grant Cooper
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-04-29 - Publisher: CUP Archive

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This book explains the emergence of a profoundly new understanding of the fundamental forces of Nature.
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-14 - Publisher: Hill and Wang

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Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in Wor