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Critical Assemblyby Lillian Hoddeson; Paul W. Henriksen; Roger A. Meade; Catherine L. Westfall; Gordon Baym; Richard Hewlett; Alison Kerr; Robert Penneman; Leslie Redman; Robert Seidel
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 55.00An exploration of how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs. more...
The Physics of the Manhattan Projectby B. Cameron Reed
Springer 2011; US$ 69.95The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This book, prepared by a gifted teacher of physics, explores the challenges that faced the members of the Manhattan project. In doing so it gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-level undergraduate physics student. Details of nuclear reactions, their energy release, the fission process, how critical masses can be estimated, how fissile materials are produced, and what factors complicate bomb design are covered. An extensive list of references and a number of problems for self-study are included. Links are given to several spreadsheets with which users can run many of the... more...
Nukespeakby Stephen Hilgartner; Richard Bell; Rory O'Connor
Sierra Club Books 2011; US$ 18.95A language of euphemism and distortion—a language like “newspeak” from George Orwell’s 1984 —has profoundly shaped public debate about nuclear technology since its inception. After World War II, nuclear developers used information-management techniques, including official secrecy and public relations, to promote what one called the “sunny side of the atom”—energy “too cheap to meter” that would supposedly power a new Golden Age. Such euphoric visions set the stage for one of the most extraordinary public-relations efforts in history: the selling of nuclear technology to the American public. The original edition of Nukespeak, published by Sierra Club Books in 1982, was conceived in... more...
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