LEADER 02876oam 2200457 450 001 996466845703316 005 20210618090559.0 010 $a3-030-61373-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-61373-0 035 $a(CKB)5460000000008741 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-61373-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6455923 035 $a(PPN)253255953 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000008741 100 $a20210618d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe physics of the Manhattan Project /$fBruce Cameron Reed 205 $aFourth edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (XXIII, 256 p. 88 illus.) 311 $a3-030-61372-0 327 $aPreface -- Preamble: Fundamental Data On Little Boy and Fat Man -- Energy Release in Nuclear Reactions, Neutrons, Fission, and Characteristics of Fission -- Critical Mass, Efficiency, and Yield -- Producing Fissile Material -- Complicating Factors -- Miscellaneous Calculations -- Appendices (A-K). 330 $aThe development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century. This revised and updated 4th edition explores the challenges that faced the scientists and engineers of the Manhattan Project. It gives a clear introduction to fission weapons at the level of an upper-year undergraduate physics student by examining the details of nuclear reactions, their energy release, analytic and numerical models of the fission process, how critical masses can be estimated, how fissile materials are produced, and what factors complicate bomb design. An extensive list of references and a number of exercises for self-study are included. Revisions to this fourth edition include many upgrades and new sections. Improvements are made to, among other things, the analysis of the physics of the fission barrier, the time-dependent simulation of the explosion of a nuclear weapon, and the discussion of tamped bomb cores. New sections cover, for example, composite bomb cores, approximate methods for various of the calculations presented, and the physics of the polonium-beryllium "neutron initiators" used to trigger the bombs. The author delivers in this book an unparalleled, clear and comprehensive treatment of the physics behind the Manhattan project. 606 $aNuclear fission 606 $aNuclear weapons 615 0$aNuclear fission. 615 0$aNuclear weapons. 676 $a623.45119 700 $aReed$b Bruce Cameron$0947691 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996466845703316 996 $aThe Physics of the Manhattan Project$92529466 997 $aUNISA