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    • Author/Creator:Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986.
    • Title:Atomic energy for military purposes : the official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 / by Henry DeWolf Smyth.
    • Edition:[New and enl. ed., incl. statements by the British and Canadian Governments].
    • Published/Created:Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1946 [©1945]
    • Physical Description:vii, 308 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

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    • Local Notes:BEIN Pforzheimer Intelligence 221: Paperbound. "Sixth printing, 115th thousand". Accompanied by a cloth badge with "Walter P". Stamp: Gerald Gross, Jr. Manuscript annotations. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer.
    • Notes:Originally published under title: Atomic bombs. Commonly known as the Smyth report.
      "A republication, with the modifications detailed in the author's preface, of the official report issued by the 'Manhattan District, ' U.S. Corps of Engineers (the name given by the War Department to the Atomic Bomb Project)."--Prelimimary page.
      "Written at the request of Maj. Gen. L.R. Groves, U.S.A."
      Includes indexes.
    • Variant and related titles:Smyth report on military uses of atomic energy.
    • Format:Book
    • Contents:Statement of the problem -- Administrative history up to December 1941 -- Progress up to December 1941 -- Administrative history, 1942-1945 -- The metallurgical project at Chicago in 1942 -- The plutonium production problem as of February 1943 -- The plutonium problem, January 1943 to June 1945 -- General discussion of the separation of isotopes -- The separation of the uranium isotopes by gaseous diffusion -- Electromagnetic separation of uranium isotopes -- The work on the atomic bomb -- General summary.
    • Subjects:Atomic bomb--United States--History.
      Nuclear energy--United States--History.
      Atomic bomb.
      Nuclear energy.
      United States.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Pforzheimer, Walter L. (Walter Lionel), 1914-2003--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:History.
    • Also listed under:Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986. Atomic energy for military purposes.
      Walter L. Pforzheimer Intelligence Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12952441