Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen BombHere, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - SeriousGrace - LibraryThingNot being a scientist and being even less interested in making a bomb of any sort, I found some of Rhodes's Dark Sun tedious. Having said that, I firmly believe to dumb it down for the sake of the ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - chrisod - LibraryThingAn alternate, and more accurate subtitle for this book would be, “How the Soviets Stole The Bomb.” There is a fair amount of science in the book, and I had flashbacks to high school chemistry when ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
Sailing Near the Wind | 302 |
Getting Down to Business | 324 |
This Buck Rogers Universe | 345 |
First Lightning | 364 |
Gungho for the Super | 382 |
Part Three | 409 |
Lessons of Limited War | 438 |
Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors | 455 |
Rendezvous | 103 |
Mass Production | 121 |
Explosions | 146 |
Provide the Bomb | 165 |
A Pretty Good Description | 180 |
Part Two Mew Weapons Added to the Arsenals | 199 |
Transitions | 201 |
Peculiar Sovereignties | 224 |
13 Changing History | 244 |
Fl | 264 |
Modus Vivendi | 285 |
Mike | 482 |
Powers of Retaliation | 513 |
In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer | 530 |
Scorpions in a Bottle | 560 |
The Gradual Removal of Prejudices | 577 |
Acknowledgments | 589 |
Glossary of Names | 671 |
Bibliography | 689 |
Index | 705 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Acheson agent Air Force Alamos Altshuler Alvarez American Army asked atomic bomb atomic energy atomic-bomb Beria Bethe Bohr Borden Bradbury British Brothman Carson Mark Committee Communist Curtis LeMay David Greenglass defense deuterium Edward Teller espionage explosion FBI FOIA files fission Fuchs's German going Gold FBI FOIA Gold's Golovin Gouzenko Greenglass FBI FOIA Groves Harry Gold hydrogen bomb Igor implosion interview isotope JCAE Julius Kapitza Khariton Klaus Fuchs knew Korea Kurchatov laboratory Lamphere later LeMay's Lilienthal Los Alamos Manhattan material meeting Mike military Moscow National neutrons NKVD nuclear officer Oppenheimer's Pervukhin plutonium President proposed quoted ibid radiation reaction reactor recalled remembered Robert Oppenheimer Rosenberg Russian Ruth Ruth Greenglass Sakharov Sarov says scientists Soviet Union Stalin Strauss Super Terletsky thermonuclear thought told tritium Truman Ulam United uranium USAEC USSR Vandenberg wartime Washington weapons wrote Yatzkov York Yuli Khariton Zukerman
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Volume 2,Numéro 2 de The Making of the Nuclear Age |
| Auteur | Richard Rhodes |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Simon and Schuster, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0684824140, 9780684824147 |
| Longueur | 736 pages |
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