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Los Alamos Primer

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 laboratory during the Manhattan Project. The five lectures were given by physicist Robert Serber in April 1943. The notes from the lectures which became the Primer were written by Edward Condon.

Serber, Robert (1992). The Los Alamos primer: the first lectures on How to build an atomic bomb. Berkeley: University of California Press.  0-520-07576-5.

ISBN

Serber, Robert; Rhodes, Richard (2020). (1 ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-34417-4. JSTOR j.ctvw1d5pf.

The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes

Reed, B. C. (1 September 2017). . Physics Today. 70 (9): 42–49. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3692.

"Revisiting The Los Alamos Primer"

Reed, B. C. (1 November 2016). "A physicists guide to The Los Alamos Primer". Physica Scripta. 91 (11): 113002. :10.1088/0031-8949/91/11/113002.

doi

LANL (2023-07-19). . Retrieved 2024-01-01.

"The Los Alamos Primer"