Mark Wolverton
Language: English
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nuclear weapons; atomic bomb; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; arms control; fission; fusion; radiation; Albert Einstein; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Leslie Groves; SALT; ABM; deterrence; hydrogen bomb; H-bomb; ICBM; missile; Cold War; dirty bomb; nuclear war; SAC; B-52; fallout; test ban; disarmament; Cuban missile crisis; Trinity; Edward Teller; Enrico Fermi; START; Manhattan Project; Los Alamos; nuclear winter; nuclear terrorism; proliferation
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jan 12, 2022
A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.
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A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.