The history of the Manhattan project and its successful creation of the atomic bomb during World War II has been well documented. It is not well known, however, that a separate and crucial part of this project was carried out by the US Navy at its Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. This project, led by the young physicist, Philip Abelson, devised a novel liquid thermal diffusion process for separating the fissionable 235U from 238U. Eventually this process was employed at Oak Ridge and significantly contributed to the construction of the uranium bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
- ISBN13 9780974707778
- Publish Date 3 November 2007
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Roberts & Company Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English