Building The H Bomb: A Personal History
eBook - PDF

Building The H Bomb: A Personal History

A Personal History

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Building The H Bomb: A Personal History

A Personal History

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Preface
  3. A Note on Secrecy
  4. Prologue
  5. 1. The Big Idea
  6. 2. The Protagonists
  7. 3. The Choice
  8. 4. The Scientists, the Officials, and the President
  9. 5. Nuclear Energy
  10. 6. Some Physics
  11. 7. Going West
  12. 8. A New World
  13. 9. The Classical Super
  14. 10. Calculating and Testing
  15. 11. Constructing Matterhorn
  16. 12. Academia Cowers
  17. 13. New Mexico, New York, and New Jersey
  18. 14. The Garwin Design
  19. 15. Climbing Matterhorn
  20. 16. More Than a Boy
  21. Epilogue
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. End Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index