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Description: A number of the fission bomb assembly methods proposed during the summer conference on bomb design held at UC Berkeley by Robert Oppenheimer in 1942 during the Manhattan Project. These drawings are taken from the "Los Alamos Primer" — Los Alamos Report LA-1 (declassified 1965) — and were created in 1943 by Robert Serber.
Title: Los Alamos Primer assembly methods
Credit: Excerpt from File:Los_Alamos_Primer.pdf
Author: Robert Serber
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