Details

Subject(s)

• Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory—History [Browse]
• Manhattan Project (U.S.)—History [Browse]
• Atomic bomb—United States—History [Browse]
• Physicists—Biography [Browse]

Summary note

More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man, were introduced to the basic principles and goals of the project in March 1943, at a crash course in new weapons technology. The lecturer was physicist Robert Serber, J. Robert Oppenheimer's protégé, and the scientists learned that their job was to design and build the world's first atomic bombs. Notes on Serber's lect.

Source of description

• Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2020).
• Print version record.

ISBN

• 0520374339 ((electronic book))
• 9780520374331 ((electronic book))

OCLC

1138682309

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