The Smyth Report was the first official account of the development of the atomic bombs. It was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Smyth was a professor of physics and chairman of the physics department of Princeton University from 1935 to 1949.
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The Smyth Report was the first official account of the development of the atomic bombs and the basic physical processes behind them. It was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The report sold almost 127,000 copies in its first eight printings, and was on The New York Times best-seller list from mid-October 1945 until late January 1946. Smyth was a professor of physics and chairman of the physics department of Princeton University from 1935 to 1949. He was involved in the Manhattan Project from early 1941, initially as a member of the National Defense Research Committee’s Committee on Uranium. He later became a consultant at Chicago, where he was in charge of designing a nuclear reactor that used heavy water as a neutron moderator. He commuted from Princeton, working in Chicago on alternate weeks, and wrote the report in his spare time. He also worked part-time at Princeton, where there was a shortage of physicists because so many of them were engaged in war work. He is also the author of the book The Second World War: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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