A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-45.

SMYTH, Henry de Wolf

Edité par Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1945

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First printed edition Preceded by the very rare lithoprint edition. Octavo. 182 pp. Publisher's printed beige cardboard wrappers. Previous owner's name and address at top margin of front wrapper (neat and legible). A very good copy. Published on August 12, 1945, only six days after Hiroshima, 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, under the code name of 'Manhattan District,' which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. Professor Henry DeWolf Smyth of Princeton, a consultant to the 'Manhattan District' project at Los Alamos, whose commandant General L.R. Groves provided the foreword, 'The Smyth Report,' as it is familiarly known, was published at one dollar by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents. [It was preceded by a preliminary mimeographed version prepared for press use.] Earle E. Coleman, "The Smyth Report: A Descriptive Check List," Princeton University Library Chronicle 37/3 (Spring 1976); 204-218, nos. 5, 4. Printing and the Mind of Man 422e. N° de réf. du vendeur 496

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Titre : A General Account of the Development of ...

Éditeur : Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office

Date d'édition : 1945

Reliure : Soft cover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket

Edition : 1st Edition