Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project by Bruce Cameron Reed

Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project by Bruce Cameron Reed

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.

Reed, Bruce Cameron: - Bruce Cameron Reed is the Charles A Dana Professor of Physics Emeritus at Alma College, Alma, Michigan. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Waterloo in Canada. In addition to a quantum mechanics text and four books on the Manhattan Project, including the IOP Concise Physics volumes Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project and The Manhattan Project: A Very Brief Introduction to the Physics of Nuclear Weapons, he has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals on research in the fields of astronomy, data analysis, quantum physics, mathematics, nuclear physics, the history of physics, and the physics of nuclear weapons.

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ISBN 13	9781627059909
ISBN 10	1627059903
Title	Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project
Author	Bruce Cameron Reed
Series	Iop Concise Physics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Year published	2015-06-30
Number of pages	142
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