The Los Alamos Primer

Part 1 I recently watched a lecture on how nuclear weapons are designed . It mentioned a few reading recommendations for anyone wanting to learn more, and one of those was The Los Alamos Primer . The primer itself is interesting for several reasons: it’s pretty old (mid 1940s old) and it’s based on five lectures Robert Serber gave in early 1943. If you open it up, you’ll see it’s very direct and…