| Description |
731 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Sloan technology series |
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Sloan technology series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-703) and index. |
| Contents |
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' |
| Subject |
Hydrogen bomb -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Nuclear weapons Development |
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United States |
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| ISBN |
068480400X |
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