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The Frisch-Peierls memorandum: A seminal document of nuclear history
The Manhattan Project is usually considered to have been initiated with Albert Einstein’s letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in October 1939. However, a lesser-known document that was just as impactful on wartime nuclear history was the so-called Frisch-Peierls memorandum. Prepared by two refugee physicists at the University of Birmingham in Britain in early 1940, this manuscript was the first technical description of nuclear weapons and their military, strategic, and ethical implications to reach high-level government officials on either side of the Atlantic. The memorandum triggered the initiation of the British wartime nuclear program, which later merged with the Manhattan Engineer District.
Tadao Takahashi, Osamu Yamaguchi, Tetsuo Kobori
Nuclear Technology | Volume 89 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 162-176
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34343
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Monju, a prototype fast breeder reactor, is now under construction in Japan. Following erection of the reactor containment vessel, construction of the reactor system has begun in parallel with construction of the auxiliary systems and plant buildings. The overall Monju project is described, including project organization, key design features, manufacture of the main components, and construction.
