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  • Formāts: Hardback, 553 pages, height x width: 235x155 mm, weight: 1010 g, 25 Illustrations, color; 127 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 553 p. 152 illus., 25 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • ISBN-10: 3030457338
  • ISBN-13: 9783030457334
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 553 pages, height x width: 235x155 mm, weight: 1010 g, 25 Illustrations, color; 127 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 553 p. 152 illus., 25 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
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  • ISBN-10: 3030457338
  • ISBN-13: 9783030457334
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Though thousands of articles and books have been published on various aspects of the Manhattan Project, this book is the first comprehensive single-volume history prepared by a specialist for curious readers without a scientific background. 

This project, the United States Army’s program to develop and deploy atomic weapons in World War II, was a pivotal event in human history. The author presents a wide-ranging survey that not only tells the story of how the project was organized and carried out, but also introduces the leading personalities involved and features simplified but accurate descriptions of the underlying science and the engineering challenges. The technical points are illustrated by reader-friendly graphics.  . 

 

Recenzijas

The book is written in a clear and powerful language, and it involves a reader as a catching detective novel. Multiple memoirs and archives are cited, plenty of rare historical pictures and illustrations are shown. The book presents a fascinating history of science and technology, management and politics, giving to readers a view and feeling of participation in one of the most pivotal undertakings in human history which is a big part of our contemporary world. (Stan Lipovetsky, Technometrics, Vol. 64 (2), 2022)

1 The Big Picture: A Survey of the Manhattan Project
1(14)
1.1 Atoms, Nuclei, and Isotopes
1(1)
1.2 Fission, Neutrons, and Chain Reactions
2(2)
1.3 Understanding Fission: Neutrons Fast and Slow
4(2)
1.4 Reactors and Plutonium
6(1)
1.5 The Manhattan Engineer District
7(2)
1.6 Little Boy, Fat Man, Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
9(6)
2 From Atoms to Nuclei: An Inward Journey
15(38)
2.1 X-Rays and Radioactivity
15(2)
2.2 Marie Curie: Polonium, Radium, and Radioactivity
17(2)
2.3 Ernest Rutherford: Alpha, Beta, and Half-Life
19(3)
2.4 The Energy of Radioactive Decay
22(1)
2.5 Isotopes, Mass Spectroscopy, and the Mass Defect
22(4)
2.6 Alpha Particles and the Nuclear Atom
26(3)
2.7 Decay Chains
29(2)
2.8 Artificial Transmutation
31(3)
2.9 Particle Accelerators and Cyclotrons
34(5)
2.10 Enter the Neutron
39(5)
2.11 Enrico Fermi and Neutron-Induced Radioactivity
44(9)
3 Fission
53(38)
3.1 Stumbling Toward Fission
54(3)
3.2 Breakthrough
57(1)
3.3 A Walk in the Snow
58(5)
3.4 Fission Arrives in America
63(5)
3.5 A Walk at Princeton
68(2)
3.6 Bohr and Wheeler
70(5)
3.7 Criticality
75(2)
3.8 Bohr Verified
77(3)
3.9 An Atomic Bomb Might Be Possible
80(4)
3.10 MAUD
84(2)
3.11 Plutonium
86(5)
4 Organizing: Coordinating Government and Army Support 1939-1943
91(58)
4.1 Fall 1939: Szilard, Einstein, the President, and the Uranium Committee
91(10)
4.2 The National Defense Research Committee; Reorganization I
101(3)
4.3 May 1941: The First NAS Report
104(3)
4.4 July 1941: The Second NAS Report, and the OSRD
107(2)
4.5 The MAUD Report
109(2)
4.6 "If You Tell Me This Is My Job, I'll Do It"
111(1)
4.7 "A Fission Bomb of Superlatively Destructive Power "
112(4)
4.8 November 1941: Bush, FDR, Reorganization, and the Planning Board
116(3)
4.9 December 1941--January 1942: The Pile Program Rescued and Centralized
119(4)
4.10 Spring 1942: Time Is Very Much of the Essence
123(2)
4.11 Enter the Army
125(3)
4.12 The S-1 Executive Committee, the Manhattan Engineer District, and Bohemian Grove
128(8)
4.13 "Oh, that Thing"
136(9)
4.14 December 1942: A Report to the President
145(4)
5 Piles and Secret Cities
149(22)
5.1 "It was an Awesome Silence "
150(8)
5.2 Scaling Up: X-10
158(5)
5.3 Secret Cities East: Oak Ridge
163(3)
5.4 Secret Cities West: Hanford
166(5)
6 U, Pu, CEW and HEW: Securing Fissile Material
171(56)
6.1 Y-12: The Lorentz Force Law Goes Big-Time
171(12)
6.2 K-25: The Gaseous Diffusion Program
183(9)
6.3 S-50: The Thermal Diffusion Program
192(11)
6.4 Hanford
203(1)
6.5 The Hanford Site
204(2)
6.6 Pile Design and Construction
206(6)
6.7 Fueling the Beasts
212(3)
6.8 Controlling the Beasts
215(2)
6.9 Startup--And Shutdown
217(5)
6.10 Feeding the Beasts
222(5)
7 Los Alamos, Trinity, and Tinian
227(94)
7.1 Origins of the Laboratory
228(4)
7.2 Organization
232(3)
7.3 The Primer
235(4)
7.4 Life on the Hill
239(3)
7.5 Roosevelt, Churchill, and the British Mission
242(7)
7.6 Criticality and Critical Assemblies
249(4)
7.7 Predetonation Physics
253(2)
7.8 The Alpha-n Problem
255(3)
7.9 Spontaneous Fission
258(5)
7.10 The Gun Bomb: Little Boy
263(4)
7.11 The Implosion Bomb: Fat Man
267(12)
7.12 The Delivery Program
279(8)
7.13 Trinity
287(26)
7.14 The Combat Bombs
313(8)
8 The German Nuclear Program: The Third Reich and Atomic Energy
321(40)
8.1 Origins of the German Program: Competition from the Outset
321(7)
8.2 A Report to the War Office, and Norwegian Heavy-Water
328(4)
8.3 Plutonium, Cyclotrons, and the First Berlin Pile
332(3)
8.4 An Error with Graphite, Twice a Spy, and a Visit to Copenhagen
335(5)
8.5 Changes of Fortune
340(4)
8.6 Freshman and Gunnerside
344(3)
8.7 Plenipotentiary for Nuclear Physics, and Vemork Bombed
347(4)
8.8 The D/F Hydro Sinking, Alsos, and the Berlin Pile Bunkers
351(4)
8.9 The B-VII and B-VIII Piles
355(6)
9 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
361(66)
9.1 The Pacific War and the 509th Composite Group
361(10)
9.2 Fall 1944: Postwar Planning Begins
371(3)
9.3 Truman Learns of the Manhattan Project
374(3)
9.4 Advice and Dissent
377(9)
9.5 The Bombings
386(32)
9.6 The Aftermath
418(2)
9.7 Farm Hall: The German Reaction
420(7)
Epilogue 427(10)
Brief Biographies 437(12)
Chronology 449(12)
Sources 461(36)
Glossary 497(10)
Bibliography 507(20)
Index 527
Bruce Cameron Reed is the Charles A. Dana professor of Physics at Alma College (Michigan), emeritus. He has published four textbooks and over 50 journal papers and semi-popular articles on the Manhattan Project; two of the texts are with Springer. In 2009 he was selected as Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his contributions to promoting understanding of the history and physics of the Project.