Dark sun : the making of the hydrogen bomb / Richard Rhodes.
Rhodes, Richard, 1937-
2005
UG1282.A8 R46 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Dark sun : the making of the hydrogen bomb / Richard Rhodes.
Author Rhodes, Richard, 1937-
Edition 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
ISBN 9780684824147 (pbk.)
0684824140 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Language English
Description 731 p., [32 p.] of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number UG1282.A8 R46 2005
Summary From the Publisher: Here, 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Sloan technology series.
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Preface to the Sloan Technology Series
Prologue: Deliveries
Part 1: Choice Between Worlds
1: Smell of nuclear powder
2: Diffusion
3: Material of immense value
4: Russian connection
5: Super lend-lease
6: Rendezvous
7: Mass production
8: Explosions
9: Provide the bomb
10: Pretty good description
Part 2: New Weapons Added To The Arsenals
11: Transitions
12: Peculiar sovereignties
13: Changing history
14: F-1
15: Modus Vivendi
16: Sailing near the wind
17: Getting down to business
18: This Buck Rogers universe
19: First lightning
20: Gung-ho for the super
Part 3: Scorpions In A Bottle
21: Fresh horrors
22: Lessons of limited war
23: Hydrodynamic lenses and radiation mirrors
24: Mike
25: Powers of retaliation
26: In the matter of J Robert Oppenheimer
27: Scorpions in a bottle
Epilogue: Gradual removal of prejudices
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary of names
Bibliography
Index.

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