Research Catalog

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 DeWolf Smyth, Chairman, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Consultant, Manhattan District, U.S. Engineers.

Author

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986

Publication

• Princeton [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press, 1945.
• ©1945

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Details

Description

ix, [3], 254, [2], [255]-264 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 20 cm.

Alternative Title

• Official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945
• Atomic energy

Subject

• United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District
• Manhattan Project (U.S.)
• Atomic bomb > United States
• Nuclear energy > United States
• Nuclear energy
• Atomic bomb
• Hydrogen bomb
• Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Weapons
• nuclear power
• nuclear bombs
• Atomic bomb
• Nuclear energy
• United States

Genre/Form

Books.

Note

• "Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, U.S.A."
• "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)" [under title: Atomic bombs].
• All printings after the 3rd include statements by the British and Canadian governments.
• Ex c.1 and 2 are 1st, 2nd, or 3rd printing (the 4th printing being the first to include a printing statement); c.3 is 5th printing; c.4 and 5, 6th printing (1946); c.6, 7th printing (1947); c.7, 8th printing (1948).

Indexed In (note)

• Coleman, E.E. Smyth report check list

Source (note)

• Ex c.4-7 are the gift of Princeton University Press.

Provenance (note)

• Ex c.4 signed by J.B. Conant, Harold C. Urey, J.R. Oppenheimer, E.P. Wigner, E.U. Condon, A.H. Compton, E. Fermi, Niels Bohr, Henry De Wolf Smyth, and 10 others.
• WHS shelf-list has no date of acquisition or name of vendor.

Binding (note)

• Ex c.1 paper-bound, in slipcase; c.2 cloth-bound, in slipcase; c.3-6 cloth; c.7 paper.

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.

LCCN

a 45004588

OCLC

• ocm00770285
• 770285
• SCSB-36606

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library