Alsos
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
by Goudsmit, Samuel A., (Samuel Abraham)
fromHistory of modern physics and astronomy
During the final weeks of World War II in Europe, as Allied armies swept across a chaotic, battle-torn Germany, two teams of the world's leading nuclear scientists were desperately at work. One team, sequestered in the New Mexican desert, hastened to assemble the atomic bombs th…
Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose examines early thinking about the atomic bomb not only on the German side but also among Allied scientists. He finds that the early history of fission bomb physics had no shortage of false starts…