Cambridge University Press, Date: 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Minor wear to the dust jacket. Light wear to the boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1993. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521441323 9780521441322 [US]

Cambridge/NY: Cambridge University Press, Date: 1993. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 509pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/silver; PON otherwise fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ pink w/blk.&white-pic.cover; slight rub. "This book tells the story of how the Los Alamos scientists responded to the spontaneous fission crisis they faced more than a year after the start of Project Y and how this response to the possible failure of the plutonium weapon motivated them to take a new approach to research that enabled building both of the first two atomic bombs." some illus. 1993. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521441323 9780521441322 [US]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, Date: 1993. Advance Review Copy. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 509 pages : 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [418]-492) and indexes. Contents; 1. Introduction -- 2. Early Research on Fission: 1933-1943 -- 3. The Early Materials Program: 1933-1943 -- 4. Setting Up Project Y: June 1942 to March 1943 -- 5. Research in the First Months of Project Y: April to September 1943 -- 6. Creating a Wartime Community: September 1943 to August 1944 -- 7. The Gun Weapon: September 1943 to August 1944 -- 8. The Implosion Program Accelerates: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 9. New Hopes for the Implosion Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 10. The Nuclear Properties of a Fission Weapon: September 1943 to July 1944 -- 11. Uranium and Plutonium: Early 1943 to August 1944 -- 12. The Discovery of Spontaneous Fission in Plutonium and the Reorganization of Los Alamos -- 13. Building the Uranium Bomb: August 1944 to July 1945 -- 14. Exploring the Plutonium Implosion Weapon: August 1944 to February 1945 -- 15. Finding the Implosion Design: August 1944 to February 1945 -- 16. Building the Implosion Gadget: March 1945 to July 1945 -- 17. Critical Assemblies and Nuclear Physics: August 1944 to July 1945 -- 18. The Test at Trinity: January 1944 to July 1945 -- 19. Delivery: June 1943 to August 1945 ...

Cambridge University Press, Date: 1993-05-28. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1993. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521441323 9780521441322 [US]

New York: Cambridge University Press, Date: 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. xv, [1], 509, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Name Index. Subject Index. Lillian Hartman Hoddeson (born 20 December 1940, in New York City) is an American historian of science, specializing in the history of physics and technology during the 2nd half of the 20th century. Hoddeson received in 1957 a high school diploma from the Bronx High School of Science, in 1961 a bachelor's degree in physics from Barnard College, and in 1966 a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. She was an assistant professor of physics from 1967 to 1970 at Barnard College and from 1971 to 1976 at Rutgers University. In 1974-1975 she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and took Thomas Kuhn's "History of Quantum Mechanics" course. From 1977 to 1992 she held academic positions at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, before becoming there an associate professor from 1993 to 2000 and a full professor from 2000 until her retirement. Since 1978 she has held the position of Fermilab's historian. Hoddeson is the co-author or editor of several books and has published more than 50 articles in referred journals. Her publications include a biography of John Bardeen, history of the development of the transistor, history of Fermilab, technical history of the beginning of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and history of the development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project. She co-authored books on ...