SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF. A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS OF USING ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES...

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Description

A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of United States Government, 1940-1945. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office], 1945

Cyclostyled pages, stapled (10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.; 26.5 x 20.2 cm). In-text diagrams. Original cream textured wrappers, "Release for Publication on" lithographed on upper wrapper; minor toning and spotting. In quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine gilt lettered.

Literature

PMM 422e

Catalogue Note

Published in the U. S. six days after Hiroshima, this is "the remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of physicists, which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb" (PMM).