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Atomic energy for military purposes : the official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945
Title
Atomic energy for military purposes : the official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 / by Henry DeWolf Smyth.
Edition
[New and enl. ed., incl. statements by the British and Canadian Governments].
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1946 [©1945]
Physical Description
vii, 308 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Pforzheimer Intelligence 221: Paperbound. "Sixth printing, 115th thousand". Accompanied by a cloth badge with "Walter P". Stamp: Gerald Gross, Jr. Manuscript annotations. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer.
Notes
Originally published under title: Atomic bombs. Commonly known as the Smyth report.
"A republication, with the modifications detailed in the author's preface, of the official report issued by the 'Manhattan District, ' U.S. Corps of Engineers (the name given by the War Department to the Atomic Bomb Project)."--Prelimimary page.
"Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L.R. Groves, U.S.A."
Includes indexes.
Variant and related titles
Smyth report on military uses of atomic energy.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 13, 2016
Contents
Statement of the problem
Administrative history up to December 1941
Progress up to December 1941
Administrative history, 1942-1945
The metallurgical project at Chicago in 1942
The plutonium production problem as of February 1943
The plutonium problem, January 1943 to June 1945
General discussion of the separation of isotopes
The separation of the uranium isotopes by gaseous diffusion
Electromagnetic separation of uranium isotopes
The work on the atomic bomb
General summary.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
History.
Also listed under
Walter L. Pforzheimer Intelligence Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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