Critical Assembly 
Subtitle: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9780521441322
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; History of science; Military Science; Second World War, 1939-1945; New Mexico; Science; Atomic Physics; Nuclear Warfare; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory; Atomic bomb; Science/Mathematics; USA; History; Technology / General; Manhattan District history, Pr; Los Alamos; Manhattan District history, Project Y, the Alamos Project
First sentence: Following the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, scientists in Germany, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States began to investigate the possibility of exploiting this energy source for military purposes.