Dark sun : the making of the hydrogen bomb /
In this work of history, science and politics, Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made; traces the path by which "the Bomb," the supreme artifact of twentieth-cen...
| Основен автор: | Rhodes, Richard, 1937- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
c1995.
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| Серия: |
Sloan technology series.
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Online version::
Dark sun. |
Съдържание:
- Prologue: Deliveries.
- Pt. 1. A choice between worlds. 'A smell of nuclear powder' ; Diffusion ; 'Material of immense value' ; A Russian connection ; 'Super lend-lease' ; Rendezvous ; 'Mass production' ; Explosions ; 'Provide the bomb' ; A pretty good description.
- Pt. 2. New weapons added to the arsenals. Transitions ; Peculiar sovereignties ; Changing history ; F-1 ; Modus Vivendi ; Sailing near the wind ; Getting down to business ; 'This Buck Rogers universe' ; First lightning ; 'Gung-ho for the super'
- Pt. 3. Scorpions in a bottle. Fresh horrors ; Lessons of limited war ; Hydrodynamic lenses and radiation mirrors ; Mike ; Powers of retaliation ; In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; Scorpions in a bottle.
- Epilogue: 'The gradual removal of prejudices'