The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb Book

This is a nice introduction to exactly what it says. The comments by Serber are especially nice as they point out errors, and give some nice history tidbits. This is a short but interesting read, and covers a lot of basic ideas (and touching on the the not so basic ideas) that are crucial for understanding atomic weapons. I do rather wish they could add in SI units for calculations, but as a historic document it retains cgs units. Also the "l" for mean free path and the "1" for the number one are nearly indistinguishable in some of the text. Using an â„“ instead of "l" would have been much easier to read. These are rather minor complaints, though, as this book is a short and informative read.