The Swords of Armageddon
Subtitle: U.S. nuclear weapons development since 1945
By: Chuck Hansen, editor
Publisher: Chukelea Publications
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Sunnyvale, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; History; Atomic bomb; Arms race
Other titles: U.S. nuclear weapons development since 1945
Description: Includes a complete technical glossary; descriptions of weapons physics; postwar technological innovations in fission weapons design; a history of American thermonuclear weaponry; individual warhead histories; a history and description of warhead arming and fusing techniques and equipment, plus three detailed appendices summarizing the objectives and results of U.S. nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962; warhead specifications and typical nuclear weapons accidents between 1950 and 1981.
Notes: Title from title screen.

System requirements: A PC with Windows, Macintosh or UNIX; Adobe Acrobat Reader 2.0 (provided on CD-ROM)
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Technical glossary and description of weapons physics; title: v. 2. Postwar fission weapons development; title: v. 3. Thermonuclear weapons development, 1942-Spring 1952; title: v. 4. Thermonuclear weapons development, 1952-Summer 1954; title: v. 5. Thermonuclear weapons development, 1954-1957; title: v. 6. Gravity bomb histories; title: v. 7. Artillery shells, missile warheads, etc. histories; title: v. 8. Arming & fuzing history and appendices.