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Los Alamos and the Development of the Atomic Bomb
By Robert W. Seidel
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109 Pages, Otowi Crossing Press
Related listings: Atomic History
Date: 1995
ISBN: 0-9645703-0-0
Country of Origin: USA
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This is a good, brief history of Los Alamos and how the bomb came to be
there. While not as in-depth as some other books on Los Alamos,
it is a quick, easy read that can be breezed through in a couple of
hours, leaving the reader with a good overview of not only Los
Alamos, but also the atomic bomb.
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From the Book Cover
How did a small group of people transplanted to
a tiny, isolated community in the mountains of
northern New Mexico organize to conceive a
weapon that would forever change the world?
And how did the Los Alamos National Laboratory
come to be located in Los Alamos? This history
traces the movers and shakers who developed
the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, New Mexico,
during World War II.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
- 1. Nuclear physics in the prewar years
- 2. The Berkeley summer study
- 3. Nuclear research center needed!
- 4. Groves takes command
- 5. A director is selected
- 6. Search for laboratory site targets west
- 7. Los Alamos Ranch School becomes arsenal of democracy
- 8. Secret scientific race is won
- 9. The Los Alamos Ranch School closes down
- 10. 'Buck Rogers Project' begins
- 11 'Military laboratory' evolves into academic outpost
- 12. Starting the Laboratory
- 13. The Laboratory is equipped
- 14. University of California contracts to operate the laboratory
- 15. The Laboratory gives birth to the "gadget"
- 16. Research at Los Alamos begins
- 17. Research responsibility assigned
- 18. Early research centers on gun-type weapon
- 19. Spontaneous fission problem goes critical
- 20. Scientific apparatus operates
- 21. Implosion--the key to the "gadget"
- 22. From calculators to computers
- 23. Scientists in uniform
- 24. Trinity
- 25. The Bradbury Science Museum--origins and development
Index of Names
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About the Author
Robert W. Seidel is the former administrator of the
Bradbury Science Museum of the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. Currently he is Director of the Charles
Babbage Institute for the History of Information
Processing and Engineering and is also a professor
of the history of technology at the University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities.
He is an historian of science
and co-author with John Heilbron of Lawrence and His
Laboratory. He contributed to the official history of
wartime Los Alamos, Critical Assembly, by Lillian
Hoddeson et al. and has written articles on the
Department of Energy's national laboratories, military
research and development, and the history of nuclear
physics.
-- From the Publisher
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