The Los Alamos Primer
Unabridged declassified value reproduction of The Los Alamos Primer by Robert Serber, in full color with all censor markings. This is the booklet given to new workers at Los Alamos during World War II, to catch them up on how to build a practical fission bomb.
The Primer was driven by Robert Oppenheimer asking his protégé Robert Serber to summarize all knowledge and possible solutions known as of April 1943 in a series of lectures. Serber did such an excellent job that the notes from the series was turned into The Los Alamos Primer.
Serber was known as an expert that bridged theory and reality, and so was also chosen to be one of the first Americans to enter Hiroshima and Nagasaki to assess the atomic damage in 1945.
Touch a piece of history in this slim volume with the full text at an affordable price.
32 pages, 3 editions
English edition · First published 1943 by Chump Change · ISBN 9781640320987
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3 editions
English
- The Los Alamos Primer · Chump Change · 1943 · ISBN 9781640320987 This page
- The Los Alamos Primer · University of California Press · 1992 · ISBN 9780520911680
- The Los Alamos Primer · Chump Change · 1943 · ISBN 9781640320994
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