los alamos: beginning of an era by LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY

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Alamos Historical Society, 2008. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Los Alamos Historical Society, 2008-02-01. Paperback. Good.

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Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1986. Reprint. Wraps. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.75 inches. 60 pages plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations. Some wear and soiling to covers. White cover with Fireball. Sticker on title page. A fascinating glimpse into the past of Los Alamos, New Mexico and the assembly of the world's first nuclear device. Many photographs support the story, which begins in 1943 when the government chose the Pajarito Plateau as an important site for the Manhattan Project. This is the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. It is the story of the founding of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and its successful secret mission to create the first atomic bomb, the weapon that ended World War II. Part One, Starting Point, Military and Scientific Realities of 1943: Military considerations had government (make) the decision, by 1943, that an atomic bomb was desirable, as a means for bringing World War II to an… Read More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, c. 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.75 inches. 64 pages plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations. Some wear and soiling to covers. White cover. A fascinating glimpse into the past of Los Alamos, New Mexico and the assembly of the world's first nuclear device. Many photographs support the story, which begins in 1943 when the government chose the Pajarito Plateau as an important site for the Manhattan Project. This is the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. It is the story of the founding of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and its successful secret mission to create the first atomic bomb, the weapon that ended World War II. Part One, Starting Point, Military and Scientific Realities of 1943: Military considerations had government (make) the decision, by 1943, that an atomic bomb was desirable, as a means for bringing World War II to an… Read More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, c. 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.75 inches. 64 pages plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations. Some wear and soiling to covers. Orange cover with Fireball. Sticker on title page. A fascinating glimpse into the past of Los Alamos, New Mexico and the assembly of the world's first nuclear device. Many photographs support the story, which begins in 1943 when the government chose the Pajarito Plateau as an important site for the Manhattan Project. This is the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. It is the story of the founding of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and its successful secret mission to create the first atomic bomb, the weapon that ended World War II. Part One, Starting Point, Military and Scientific Realities of 1943: Military considerations had government (make) the decision, by 1943, that an atomic bomb was desirable, as a… Read More

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, c. 1970. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Wraps. Very good. Hal Olsen (Cover Art). 28 cm, 64 pages. Wrap. Illustrations. Slight wear and soiling to covers, white cover. Information for this work was compiled and edited from previously published articles and brochures on Los Alamos history. Weapons whose explosive output is exclusively from fission reactions are commonly referred to as atomic bombs or atom bombs (abbreviated as A-bombs). In fission weapons, a mass of fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium) is assembled into a supercritical mass-the amount of material needed to start an exponentially growing nuclear chain reaction-either by shooting one piece of sub-critical material into another (the "gun" method) or by compressing using explosive lenses a sub-critical sphere of material using chemical explosives to many times its original density (the "implosion" method). Only the latter approach can be used if the fissile… Read More