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Description: Los Alamos Primer : The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Paperback by Serber, Robert; Rhodes, Richard (INT), ISBN 0520344170, ISBN-13 9780520344174, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man, were introduced to the basic principles and goals of the project in March 1943, at a crash course in new weapons technology. The lecturer was physicist Robert Serber, J. Robert Oppenheimer’s protégé, and the scientists learned that their job was to design and build the world’s first atomic bombs. Notes on Serber’s lectures were gathered into a mimeographed document titled TheLos Alamos Primer, which was supplied to all incoming scientific staff. The Primer remained classified for decades after the war.

Published for the first time in 1992, the Primer offers contemporary readers a better understanding of the origins of nuclear weapons. Serber’s preface vividly conveys the mingled excitement, uncertainty, and intensity felt by the Manhattan Project scientists. This edition includes an updated introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Richard Rhodes.

A seminal publication on a turning point in human history, The Los Alamos Primer reveals just how much was known and how terrifyingly much was unknown midway through the Manhattan Project. No other seminar anywhere has had greater historical consequences.
 

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Book Title: Los Alamos Primer : The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic

Number of Pages: 176 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Year: 2020

Subject: Government, History

Item Height: 210 mm

Item Weight: 272 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Robert Serber

Item Width: 140 mm

Format: Paperback

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