Building the H bomb
Subtitle: a personal history
By: Kenneth W Ford
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9789814632072; 9789814618793
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Hydrogen bomb; Design and construction; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: The big idea; title: The protagonists; title: The choice; title: The scientists, the officials, and the president; title: Nuclear energy; title: Some physics; title: Going west; title: A new world; title: The classical super; title: Calculating and testing; title: Constructing Matterhorn; title: Academia cowers; title: New Mexico, New York, and New Jersey; title: The Garwin design; title: Climbing Matterhorn; title: More than a boy.