Name: Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949
SKU: 18761357
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Author: James L. Abrahamson; Paul H. Carew
ISBN: 9780275978198

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Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Praeger

Author

James L. Abrahamson; Paul H. Carew

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0275978192

ISBN13

9780275978198

Synopsis "Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949 "

In August of 1946, General Leslie Groves, Chief of the Manhattan Project, ordered 60 young officers to Sandia, New Mexico. In a project so wrapped in secrecy that few know of it even a half-century later, Groves charged them to learn how to assemble the early and highly complex atomic bombs. With that goal accomplished, they established a school to train additional assembly teams and the weaponeers and bomb commanders needed for the services' atomic-capable aircraft. Although the wartime atomic scientists believed such tasks lay beyond the ken of military personnel, the Sandia Pioneers soon maintained even the bombs' fissionable cores and assisted the Atomic Energy Commission scientists and technicians in their pursuit of improved bomb designs. The secret history of the young officers who replaced the scientists that had assembled the first atomic bombs, proving that the military was capable of building and maintaining the atomic stockpile, is told here.Possessed of a very special skill, the Pioneers also contributed to the construction and assembly facilities aboard aircraft carriers and at airbases in the United States and England. With the AEC lacking enough technicians to conduct the 1948 atomic tests at Eniwetok, Groves sent many of the Pioneers to assist scientists testing improvements in the design of bombs' fissionable cores. Those tests demonstrated that the new designs increased the bombs' yield while making better use of scarce plutonium, thereby permitting a dramatic increase in the size of the atomic stockpile.

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