Kernwapens

The wizards of Armageddon

by Kaplan, Fred M., Sherwin, Martin J.

fromStanford nuclear age series

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This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political …

The wizards of Armageddon

by Kaplan, Fred M.

fromStanford nuclear age series

0 Type: Book

This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political …

Uncommon sense

by Rota, Gian-Carlo, Metropolis, N., (Nicholas), Sharp, D. H., (David Howland), Oppenheimer, J. Robert

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"I think that we will not be very successful in discouraging other power from this course [of a nuclear military program] unless we show, by our own example and conviction, that we regard nuclear armament as a transitory, dangerous, and degrading phase of the worlds history" The…

Going critical: the first North Korean nuclear crisis

by Wit, Joel S., Gallucci, Robert L.

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Annotation

Going critical: the first North Korean nuclear crisis

by Wit, Joel S., Poneman, Daniel, Gallucci, Robert L.

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In this work, three former US officials who played key roles in the 1994 crisis trace the intense efforts that led North Korea to freeze - and pledge to ultimately dismantle - its dangerous plutonium production programme, while avoiding a second Korean War.

The first war of physics: the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939-1949

by Baggott, J. E., Baggott, J. E.

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An account of the race to build history's most destructive weapon to date.

The first war of physics: the secret history of the atom bomb, 1939-1949

by Baggott, J. E., Baggott, J. E.

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An account of the race to build history's most destructive weapon to date.

Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German culture

by Rose, Paul Lawrence

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Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose examines early thinking about the atomic bomb not only on the German side but also among Allied scientists. He finds that the early history of fission bomb physics had no shortage of false starts…

Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German culture

by Rose, Paul Lawrence

0 Type: Book

Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose examines early thinking about the atomic bomb not only on the German side but also among Allied scientists. He finds that the early history of fission bomb physics had no shortage of false starts…

History wars: the Enola Gay and other battles for the American …

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"From the "taming of the West" to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics. What kind of history Americans should read, see, or fund is no longer merely a matter of professional interest t…