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 ; written at the request of L.R. Groves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986.

Contributor:

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.

Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--United States--History.

Atomic bomb.

Nuclear energy--United States--History.

Nuclear energy.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)

Physical Description:

vii, 308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Edition:

[New and enl. ed.].

Other Title:

Atomic energy

Smyth report

Place of Publication:

Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 1948, c1945 (New York : American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.)

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.

Notes:

Originally published under title: Atomic bombs. Commonly known as the Smyth report.

"This book is a republication, with 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)."--Page facing title page.

Edition statement from book jacket.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Zinman copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Michael Zinman.

Zinman copy: dust jacket (damaged) retained.

Contains:

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986. Atomic energy for military purposes.

OCLC:

792927988