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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. Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, U.S.A.

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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. Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, U.S.A.

by Smyth, Henry DeWolf

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Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ: 1945., 1945 pp. vii, 308 + Photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket with price. Hardbound. Very nice copy. Fifth printing. New and enlarged edition, including statements by the British and Canadian governments. Familiarily known as the "Smyth Report" the first published account of the development of the atom bomb was issued, in mimeographed form for press use, on August 12, 1945, just six days after the first atomic bomb was exploded over Hiroshima. A GPO and a trade edition quickly followed. Smyth, chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, gives a remarkably full and candid account of the development of the work carried out by the Manhattan District Project which culminated in the production of the first Atomic Bomb. Printing and the Mind of Man 422e. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SPACE/6 0.0. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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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. Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, U.S.A.
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Smyth, Henry DeWolf
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Hardcover
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Dust Jacket Included
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ: 1945.
Date Published
1945
Keywords
SPACE; ATOM; FUSION; NUCLEAR; TECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE; HENRY DEWOLF SMYTH; MILI TARY; ATOMIC ENERGY; OFFICIAL REPORT; DEVELOPMENT; BOMB; UNITED STATES; MAN HATTAN DISTRICT; HISTORY; FIFTH PRINTING; CANADIAN GOVERNMENT; BRITISH GOVE RNMENT
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WORLD WAR TWO; SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY;

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