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Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project: How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer

Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project: How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer

Paperback

Series: Iop Concise Physics

Physics

ISBN10: 1627059903
ISBN13: 9781627059909
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Published: Jun 1 2015
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This book gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the Manhattan 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, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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