Los Alamos

Book Id: WPLBN0000680353
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 1.56 MB
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Los Alamos
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Energy, Energy and research series
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Department of Energy Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: Methods of devising a bomb deriving its explosive energy from the fission of U-235 or Pu-239 were purely speculative. The engineering effort was entirely in the future, and it would depend heavily on the results of physical, chemical, and metallurgical studies of the two possible core materials. These studies would have to be made on extremely small quantities of uranium and plutonium, so that the necessary knowledge would be gained by the time larger quantities should become available.