Abstract
This introductory chapter covers the background nuclear physics necessary for understanding later calculations of critical mass, nuclear weapon efficiency and yield, and how fissile materials are produced. It describes how the energy released in nuclear reactions can be calculated, how artificially-produced nuclear transmutations were discovered, the discovery of the neutron, artificially-produced radioactivity, the discovery and interpretation of neutron-induced nuclear fission, why only certain isotopes of uranium and plutonium are feasible for use in nuclear weapons, and how nuclear reactors differ from nuclear weapons.
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