Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project - How Nuclear Physics Became a Global Geopolitical Game-Changer (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	IOP Concise Physics
Release date:	June 2015
Authors:	Bruce Cameron Reed
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	142
ISBN-13:	978-1-68174-908-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Nuclear structure physics
LSN:	1-68174-908-4
Barcode:	9781681749082

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