| Author | Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986.
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| Title | 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 De Wolf Smyth.
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| Published | Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945.
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| Description | ix, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, diagrams ; 21 cm
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| General Note | "Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L.R. Groves, U.S.A."--T.p.
"This book is a republication, with the 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)."
Includes indexes.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Introduction -- 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.
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| Subjects | Atomic bomb -- United States.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Nuclear energy -- United States.
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.
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| Other Titles | Smyth report
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| LC Card Number | a45-4588 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: QC 173 S667 1945
CA-1903299: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 71579] |
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