A general account of the development of methods of using atomic energy for military purposes under the auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945 /
This report was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII on August 6 and 9. This report is an unclassified summary and report of the Manhattan Project which created the United States’ first atomic wea...
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| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
[Adjutant General's Office],
[1945]
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| Summary: | This report was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII on August 6 and 9. This report is an unclassified summary and report of the Manhattan Project which created the United States’ first atomic weapons. The report served the purpose of informing American citizens and taxpayers about the Manhattan Project and to provide the scientists and engineers who worked on the project a guide for what they were allowed to discuss concerning the project. This report outlines the physics underlying the bomb - nuclear fission - and the administrative history and structure that defined the project. |
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| Item Description: | "Written at the request of Major General L.R. Groves, United States Army. Publication authorized as of August 1945." Lithoprint, reproduced from typewritten copy. This was a preliminary edition, printed for quick release to the press and the scientific community, presumably while the 182-page typeset edition, with the same text and title, was in preparation by the U.S.G.P.O. for sale to the public. Approximately 1000 copies. Better known by the title under which it was later published: Atomic energy for military purposes. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1945; also known as the "Smyth report." Imprint from Coleman (page 206): "... the lithoprinting was done in the Adjutant General's Office in the Pentagon." The Cushing Library/Rare copy is stamped "Naval Ordnance Laboratory Library"; leaves IX-7, IX-8 and IX-8 cont'd are typewritten and loosely inserted. |
| Physical Description: | 200 pages in various pagings : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | "Sample list of reports ... prepared in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago in 1942"--Leaf at end. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Washington (D.C.) |