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Critical assembly, a technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945, Lillian Hoddeson [and others] ; with contributions from Gordon Baym [and others]

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Lillian Hoddeson [and others] ; with contributions from Gordon Baym [and others]

a technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945

1. Introduction -- 2. Early Research on Fission: 1933-1943 -- 3. The Early Materials Program: 1933-1943 -- 4. Setting Up Project Y: June 1942 to March 1943 -- 5. Research in the First Months of Project Y: April to September 1943 -- 6. Creating a Wartime Community: September 1943 to August 1944 -- 7. The Gun Weapon: September 1943 to August 1944 -- 8. The Implosion Program Accelerates: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 9. New Hopes for the Implosion Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 10. The Nuclear Properties of a Fission Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 11. Uranium and Plutonium: Early 1943 to August 1944 -- 12. The Discovery of Spontaneous Fission in Plutonium and the Reorganization of Los Alamos -- 13. Building the Uranium Bomb: August 1944 to July 1945 -- 14. Exploring the Plutonium Implosion Weapon: August 1944 to February 1945 -- 15. Finding the Implosion Design: August 1944 to February 1945 -- 16. Building the Implosion Gadget: March 1945 to July 1945 -- 17. Critical Assemblies and Nuclear Physics: August 1944 to July 1945 -- 18. The Test at Trinity: January 1944 to July 1945 -- 19. Delivery: June 1943 to August 1945 -- 20. The Legacy of Los Alamos