The background science
The background science
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背景科学
DOI：
10.1088/978-1-6270-5991-6ch2
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发表时间：
2015
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B. Reed
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这本书由一位公认的曼哈顿计划专家编写，对该计划的所有主要方面进行了简明、快节奏的描述，熟悉能量、原子结构和同位素的一些基本概念的本科生或高中生都可以理解。文中描述了使核武器成为可能的基本科学发现，该项目是如何组织的，在获得裂变铀和钚以及设计可行的炸弹方面所面临和克服的艰巨挑战，1945年7月在新墨西哥州南部沙漠进行的戏剧性的Trinity试验，以及对广岛和长崎的轰炸。
This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challenges faced and overcome in obtaining fissile uranium and plutonium, and in designing workable bombs, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.