Project Y: The Los Alamos Story - Volume 2 - Part 1 Toward Trinity - Part 2 Beyond Trinity

Hawkins, David - Part 1; Truslow Edith C. and Smith, Ralph C. - Part 2

ISBN 10: 0938228080 / ISBN 13: 9780938228080

Published by Tomash Publishers, Los Angeles / San Francisco, 2000

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Book and slipcase are both clean and book has a square, tight binding and white pages. 506 Pages with a Comprehensive 20 Page Index. Previous owner's name and date top right ffep and same for back ffep. 40th Anniversary Edition stamped on front. This limited edition, produced with the cooperation of the Los Alamos laboratory, is printed on Howard Permalife Olde White Text, bound in full buckram-type blue cloth, gold lettering to spine and front with a blue Elephant Hide matching slipcase. There are 25 pages following the index that includes graphs detailing personnel population, copies of critical correspondence (Groves, Conant, Oppenheimer), Layout of Technical Area Buildings, Plot and Site Maps, Messages Confirming Bomb Results, and Project Detail Location Plan. This book is an edited version of the LAMS-2532 report written in 1946 and 1947 originally titled Manhattan District History: Project Y, The Los Alamos project. Some material has been declassified since the original 1947 edition was been added. Original factual material has not been changed. This volume tells an important part of the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in history-the story of the founding of the Laboratory at Los Alamos through the successful completion of its secret mission to create the first atomic bomb. The celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the Laboratory provides an appropriate occasion to reprint this important and significant historical report, compiled in 1947, from internal documents. Few individuals, even those who are knowledgeable about that early era, will read this work without feeling a sense of profound discovery at the importance of those daily events which led to the most dramatic technological development of this century. The United States and the free world in general, owe a great debt to those who, prior to World War II, saw that science and technology could be vital for the preservation of freedom. It was such a group that assembled at Los Alamos. Science and technology have long shaped the outcome of international conflicts, domestic policies, and society in general. We are donsbookstore in Albuquerque New Mexico. The book you see in the image is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Project Y: The Los Alamos Story - Volume 2 - Part 1 Toward Trinity - Part 2 Beyond Trinity
• Publisher: Tomash Publishers, Los Angeles / San Francisco
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938228080
• ISBN 13: 9780938228080
• Binding: Hard Back
• Illustrator: Simms, Mary Kaye - Cover
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Slip Case

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Synopsis

Book by Hawkins, David, Truslow, Edith C., Smith, Ralph C.