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Laddar... U.S. Army in World War II, Special Studies: Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb (1985)25 | Ingen/inga | 913,174 | Ingen/inga | Ingen/inga | The U.S. Army played a key role in the formation and administration of the Manhattan Project, the World War II organization which produced the atomic bombs that not only contributed decisively to ending the war with Japan but also opened the way to a new atomic age. nbsp; nbsp; The volume begins with a prologue, designed to provide the reader with a brief survey of the history of atomic energy and to explain in layman's terms certain technical aspects of atomic science essential to an understanding of the major problems occurring in the development of an atomic weapon.nbsp; nbsp; Early chapters describe the beginning of the Army's atomic mission, including the formation of the Manhattan District, the first steps in acquiring the means to produce atomic weapons and the appointment of General Groves. nbsp;Subsequent topical chapters trace the building and operation of the large-scale process plants for the production of fissionable materials; the administration of a broad range of support activities, such as security and community management; and the fabrication, testing, and combat employment of atomic bombs. nbsp;A concluding section describes how the Army dealt with the difficult problems arising during its unexpectedly prolonged postwar trusteeship of the project until December 1946, when the newly created civilian agency - the United States Atomic Energy Commission - assumed responsibility for atomic energy matters.… (mer) |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. The concept of the atomic structure of matter first emerged in the fifth century B.C. with the Greek theory of minute particles, or atoms, as the unchangeable and indivisible units comprising all material things.1 This new idea, however, lay dormant for nearly two thousand years because Aristotle's view that all matter is continuous and composed of four elements—fire, earth, air, and water—prevailed in the minds of men. Following the Renaissance in Europe such philosophers and scientists as Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, Boyle, and Newton supported the early concept, and in the nineteenth century chemists (somewhat later, physicists) transformed this atomic theory into a material reality. | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. In compliance with the people's mandate—a decision that represented probably not so much a criticism of the Army's role in the Manhattan Project, as it did a continuing adherence to the traditional American belief in subordinating the role of the military in peacetime—the Army on 31 December 1946 passed on to the Atomic Energy Commission primary responsibility for the future development and control of atomic energy. And even as the Army completed its final act, some of the correlative benefits and risks of the atomic legacy that it had done so much to create were already discernible. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had revealed the power, and the horror, of an atomic bombing, forecasting the urgent need for an international alliance to control nuclear weapons that, if left uncontrolled, threatened the existence of civilized society. But the fissioning process that had made possible the release of the enormous energy within the atom also gave promise of providing vast amounts of heat for generating electricity and useful radioactive isotopes for industrial and medical application. In the years ahead, while having a lesser role in atomic matters as a member of the commission's Military Liaison Committee and, subsequently, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, the Army—as an integral institution of American society—would continue to share in the atomic legacy. (Klicka för att visa. Varning: Kan innehålla spoilers.) | |
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