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    The Los Alamos Primer is a printed version of the first five lectures on the principles of nuclear weapons given to new arrivals at the top-secret Los Alamos...
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    supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him "the intellectual midwife at the birth...
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    The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California...
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    Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant (1997) Life After Doomsday (1980) Los Alamos Primer (1992) The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1988) Making a Real Killing:...
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  • nuclear weapon with a tamper was introduced by Robert Serber in his Los Alamos Primer, a series of lectures given in April 1943 as part of the Manhattan...
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  • The Los Alamos Primer, by Manhattan Project scientist Robert Serber. The Primer was a set of lectures given to new arrivals at the secret Los Alamos Laboratory...
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    now fully declassified and widely available online as a PDF) Los Alamos Primer. The Primer addressed fission energy, neutron production and capture, nuclear...
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    as delineated by Rob Serber in his 1992 extension of the original Los Alamos Primer. The term hydride for this type of weapon has been subject to misunderstandings...
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    implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Seth Henry Neddermeyer was born in Richmond...
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    edition that follows the translation. Serber, Robert (2020-04-07). The Los Alamos Primer. University of California Press. p. 7. doi:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5pf....
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