Dark Sun
Subtitle: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Series: Sloan technology series
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1995-08-01
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780684804002
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Ordnance, weapons technology; Science: General Issues; Politics/International Relations; Nuclear Weapons; History - General History; History; Military Science; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; History / General; 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.