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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.
Masaki Taniguchi, Satoru Tanaka, Yoshio Nose, Victor Grishmanov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1284-1289
Tritium Properties and Interaction with Material | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology In Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30587
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Hydroxyl groups on the surface of Li2O were studied by using a diffuse reflectance method with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy at high temperature up to 833K under controlled D2O or D2 partial pressure. Multiple peaks due to the stretching vibration of 0-D were observed at 2748, 2717, 2660, 2620, 2540, 2520, 2490cm−1 showing a different behavior with temperature or atmosphere. When D2 was added to the sweep gas, peak intensity of 2660 and 2620cm−1 decreased. This result indicates that the surface nature is influenced by oxygen potential. Assignment of observed peaks to the surface nature was also discussed.
