SMYTH HENRY D A General Account of the Development of Method

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SMYTH, HENRY D. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945. iii-vii, [1], 182 pages, 2 blank leaves. Large 8vo, 227x150 mm, original tan wrappers; crisp, clean copy, with only very faint wrinkling along fore edges toward end; 1/4 morocco folding case. [Washington, D.C., 1945]

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Advance printing, lithoprint version; without the War Department Bureau of Public Relations press release. "Released to the public on 12 August 1945, only six days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the advance printing of the Smyth report contained a full account of the development work carried between 1940 and 1945 by the Manhattan Project, which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb"--Norman 1962. Coleman 3.