Algora Publishing, New York, 2011. — ISBN: 978-0-87586-819-6 (soft: alk. paper), ISBN: 978-0-87586-820-2 (hard cover: alk. paper), ISBN: 978-0-87586-821-9 (ebook: alk. paper). About the Book The foundations of power politics in the nuclear age, fundamental forces that drive events in the international news, and seldom-discussed factors that can shift whole economies, or trigger...
Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. – 290 p. This book is a history of nuclear weapons. From their initial theoretical development at the start of the twentieth century to the recent tests in North Korea, Jeremy Bernstein seeks to describe the basic science of nuclear weaponry at each point in the narrative. At the same time, he offers accounts and anecdotes...
Defense threat reduction agency, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. 2002. - 467 p. Defense’s Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997, traces the development of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), and its descendant government organizations, from its original founding in 1947 to 1997. After the disestablishment of the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) in 1947, AFSWP...
United States Department of Energy, History Division, DOE/MA-0518, 2000. – 95 p. Shortly after midnight on January 27, 1951, personnel from the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory delivered a nuclear capsule to a heavily guarded Air Force B–50D sitting on a taxi strip at Kirtland Air Force Base outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. Already on the bomber was an assembled nuclear device,...
Third edition, Washlngton: US Department of defense and the energy research and development administration, 1977. – 660 p. When 'The Effects of atomic weapons" was published in 1950, the explosive energy yields of the fission bombs available at that time were equivalent to some thousands of tons (i.e., kilotons) of TNT. With the development of thermonuclear (fusion) weapons,...
2nd Symposium "Nukleare und radiologische Waffen," INT, Euskirchen, 20-22 Sept., 2005. — 54 p. Abstract The paper begins with a general introduction and update to Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons (FGNW), and then addresses some particularly important military aspects on which there has been only limited public discussion so far. These aspects concern the unique military...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 446 p. – ISBN10: 3319253654 This book fills a clear gap in the literature for a technically-focused book covering nuclear proliferation and related issues post-9/11. Using a concept-led approach which serves a broad readership, it provides detailed overview of nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation and international...
A Review of Post-Cold War Policy, Force Levels, and War Planning. Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2005. - 102 p. This report builds upon the extensive research conducted by independent analysts in the United States and Europe over the past several decades. Deciphering the infrastructure of nuclear operations is difficult and time consuming but a necessary and...
Washington: US Goverment Printing Office, 1950. — 455 p. The atomic bomb is a new weapon of great destructive power. It resembles bombs of the more conventional type in so far as its explosive effect is the result of the very rapid liberation of a large quantity of energy in a relatively small space. But it differs from other bombs in three important respects: first, the amount...
Illustrated by John Hull. — Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. — 158 p. : ill. A scientist’s recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull’s involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II. Fresh from a summer job working with explosives in the chemistry...
New York: Pegasus Books, 2010. — 473 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60598-203-8 The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears, our perception of all things nuclear is seen through the lens of weapons development. Nuclear power is full of mind-bending theories, deep secrets, and the...
Washington, DC: National Research Council (NRC), National Academies Press, 2005. – 143 p. Nuclear earth-penetrator weapons, such as those described as robust nuclear earth penetrator (RNEP) weapons, are controversial. Part of the controversy has been about whether a nuclear earth-penetrator could be designed to defeat a deeply buried hard target but not cause any collateral...
Washington, DC: National Research Council (NRC), National Academy Press, 1985. — 204 p. — ISBN: 0-309-55466-7. The Committee on the Atmospheric Effects of Nuclear Explosions addressed the following charge: (1) determine the manner in which the atmosphere of the earth would be modified by a major exchange of nuclear weapons and, insofar as the current state of knowledge and...
Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1966. — 370 p. Prepared and produced by the U. S. Navy Training Publications Center under direction of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Illustrated with black-and-white photos and diagrams. The book is old but the basics are still unchanged.
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 143 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN 978–0–19–922954–3. Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. Indeed, for all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero and to keep other nations (such as Iran) from developing nuclear...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. – 280 p. The official report on the development of the atomic bomb under the auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945. The story of the development of the atomic bomb by the combined efforts of many groups in the United States is a fascinating but highly technical account of an enormous enterprise. Obviously military...
United Nations Publications UNIDIR, 2002. — 153 p. Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, the issue of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, particularly fissile materials, has been raised on numerous occasions. Lack of control over tactical nuclear weapons presents a real danger that these weapons could end up in the hands...
Salamander Books, 1988. — 120 p. — ISBN: 0861013778. Language: English An illustrated guide to strategic weapons Every major mod. nuclear weapon described in detail. Strategies a. tactics, warheads a. missiles, technology a. inventories Max Walmer.
Fusion Energy Foundation, 1981. — 144 p. — ISBN: 0938460005. Dr. Friedwardt Winterberg has worked for some 30 years in the controlled nuclear fusion and weapons research communities. He was the first to propose electron beam pellet fusion, ion-beam pellet fusion, impact fusion, magnetic isolation of electron beam and ion beam diodes for particle-beam fusion, and particle-beam...
Singapore: World Scientifc, 2010. — 435 p. With the dramatic advance of laser and electric pulse power techniques, the fissionless ignition of a small thermonuclear explosive device becomes a real possibility, with many of the ideas developed for large thermonuclear explosive devices very likely to be useful for thermonuclear microexplosions. A fission-triggered thermonuclear...
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