Dark Sun
Subtitle: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: August 6, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780684824147
Subjects: Popular astronomy; United States - 20th Century/WWII; History: American; History - General History; USA; General; Military Science; History / General; History; Hydrogen bomb
First sentence: EARLY IN JANUARY 1939, nine months before the outbreak of the Second World War, a letter from Paris alerted physicists in the Soviet Union to the startling news that German radiochemists had discovered a fundamental new nuclear reaction.