PDF-[DOWNLOAD]-Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer

This volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs The authors explore how the critical assembly of scientists engineers and military personnel at Los Alamos responding to wartime deadlines collaborated to create a new approach to largescale research The book opens with an introduction laying out major themes After a synopsis of the prehistory of the bomb project from the discovery of nuclear fission to the start of the Manhattan Engineer District and an overview of the early materials program the book examines the establishment of the Los Alamos Laboratory the implosion and gun assembly programs nuclear physics research chemistry and metallurgy explosives uranium and plutonium development confirmation of spontaneous fission in pileproduced plutonium the thermonuclear bomb critical assemblies the Trinity test and delivery of the combat weapons. Courtesy ɨe H, Robert Oppenheimer .emorial Committee, Oppenheimer receiving the Dermi Awarb from Presibent Jynbon #, Hohnson 1763, Courtesy Jawrence #erieley National Jaboratory, Week 15, February 3. German destruction of Murmansk, 1943 . (. Yevgeny. . Khaldei. ). Germans losing the war. Battle of Kursk, summer 1943, last German offensive in the East . . Jews and other victims locked in the continent . issues. . for. . the. . assembly. . process. Identification. . and. on-site . procedures. Contents. 1 Introduction: . main goals and critical issues. Pre-assembly issues. Design and manufacture. & . Brady Vanderslice. Pacific Theatre Timeline. Jasmyne Dickerson. Shannon Rudick. LaKehshia Luckey. 12/7/41-Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. 12/10/41-Japan invades the Phillipines. 12/25/41-British surrender at Hong Kong. 16.4. Strategy. North Africa. Italy. France. Germany. Pacific . North Africa. General Montgomery. El Alamein. German retreat. Rommel escapes. Operation Torch. Allies invade Morocco. General Eisenhower. Life 1939-41. Initial impact of war- autarky, rationing, Hitler youth no air raids . til. 1943.. Women- 1939 6.2 mill worked 13 mill men in war. Jan 1943 women to sign up for work 400000 41%. Propaganda- Goebbels- press radio films positive. What’s Essential?. Causes of the War (underlying and direct). Reasons for American Neutrality (various acts/events). Reason for American entrance: Pearl Harbor. Wartime goals of the Allies. Major battles: D-Day, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. at Los Alamos. UNCLASSIFIED. 2. The Frisch-Peierls Memo. Fission is discovered in Germany in 1938. Einstein warns FDR in a letter dated August 2, 1939. Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. In early 1940, the Frisch-Peierls Memo is completed. First to Propose a Quantum Computer Model. Dr. Charles C. . Tappert. Seidenberg School of CSIS, Pace University. Richard Feynman. Richard Feynman. American theoretical physicist known for . The . path integral formulation of quantum . 1 1. Figure 1. The RaLa/Bayo CanyonImplosion Experiments A. Biographical Sketch Figure 2. Biographical Sketch I am a very retiring person. I from the Air Force in 1974 after 21 from Civil Servic AuthorFormal consent from occupationally exposed workers-ries for the workers in the AEC nuclear complex The Registry was an outgrowth of-ford site near Richland Washington and continued to collect t This fully illustrated series offers detailed descriptions of the evolution of all classes of the principle U.S. combatant types, as well as plans, profiles, and numerous detailed photographs. Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption. This volume is a lucid and accurate history of the technical research that led to the first atomic bombs. The authors explore how the critical assembly of scientists, engineers, and military personnel at Los Alamos, responding to wartime deadlines, collaborated to create a new approach to large-scale research. The book opens with an introduction laying out major themes. After a synopsis of the prehistory of the bomb project, from the discovery of nuclear fission to the start of the Manhattan Engineer District, and an overview of the early materials program, the book examines the establishment of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the implosion and gun assembly programs, nuclear physics research, chemistry and metallurgy, explosives, uranium and plutonium development, confirmation of spontaneous fission in pile-produced plutonium, the thermonuclear bomb, critical assemblies, the Trinity test, and delivery of the combat weapons.