Sylvain Lenfle

Experimenting in the Unknown: Lessons from The Manhattan Project

By rnd-admin
on 17 December, 2019

The Manhattan project, built the first implosion-type fission bomb when much of the necessary information and theory were not available. Studying this project revealed interesting insights and some lessons on how to (and how not to) approach such investigations...

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