Los Alamos Primer

Serber, R. (1992). The Los Alamos Primer The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb. Berkeley University of California Press. 

Dyson, EJ. 1992. Dragon s teeth Review of The Los Alamos Primer. Science 256 388-389. My letter to the editor correcting Dyson s numerous misstatements of fact re LSD addiction ) was rejected. 

Firing the pieces of core together, the Berkeley theoretician continued, is the part of the job about which we know least at present The summer-study group had examined several ingenious designs. The most favorable fired a cylindrical male plug of core and tamper into a mated female sphere of tamper and core, illustrated here in cross section from the Los Alamos Primer ... 

Condon, Edward U. 1943. The Los Alamos Primer. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. 

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