History of Science & Technology, Including the World of Richard Feynman, and Natural History

[Feynman, Richard P.]; Smyth, Henry Dewolf. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes...

Feynman's father's personal copy of the famed "Smyth Report", signed by Feynman : The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945.

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[Feynman, Richard P.]; Smyth, Henry Dewolf

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. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945.

First edition. Octavo (8 x 5.75 inches). Publisher's red cloth, without the fragile dust-jacket. Signed by Feynman in the margin on page 166 where he is referenced in the text, and signed and inscribed by Melville Feynman on front fly-leaf.: "11/4/45 / M.A. Feynman / 1502 Mott Ave / Far Rockaway."

FEYNMAN'S FATHER'S PERSONAL COPY OF THE SMYTH REPORT, SIGNED BY FEYNMAN

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).