2nd ed. — Chukelea, 2007. — 7 volumes. — 3068 p. The Swords of Armageddon is the first and only comprehensive illustrated history of the post-World War II design, development, and testing of U.S. nuclear weaponry available to the public. Volume I includes the front matter and a description of fission and fusion weapon physics, fuels, and weapon design and detonation principles....
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...
Kindle Singles, 2019. — 148 p. Winner of the Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award given by Peace Corps Worldwide. After a devastating run of German victories, Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler’s advance. But far from the battlefields, Allied scientists are struggling. Intelligence reports put them a distant second behind the Germans in a competition that could determine the...
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...
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...
Publisher: Presidio Press; First Edition edition (April 28, 2009) Language: English ISBN10: 0891419047 ISBN13: 978-0891419044 In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force...
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. National Air And Space Museum, 1995. — 154 p. This text was to have been the script for theNational Air and Space Museum's exhibition of the Enola Gay, focusingon the end of World War II and the decision of the United States touse of the atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was a B-29 aircraft thatcarried the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima,...
Washington (DC): Regnery Publishing, 2015. From Amazon: In the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. Leslie Richard Groves was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic...
Princeton University Press, 2000 - 279 p. In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and...
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...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 367 p. After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever, the threat of climate change has never...
Springer, 2017. — 125 p. This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II. It is also an "eye-witness" account of the dawning of the nuclear age, with the dialogue and narrative spanning the period before, during and after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan at the end of the war. This...
Unite States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests. Nuclear Test Personnel Review30 April 1982. — 138 p. Prepared by the Defense Nuclear Agency as Executive Agency for the Department of Defense. ARGUS was the designation given to the three high-altitude nuclear test shots conducted by the United States in the South Atlantic Ocean in August and September 1958. The ARGUS shots were...
IOP Publishing, 1993. — 313 p. From June to December 1945 ten leading German scientists were detained at Farm Hall, Godmanchester, near Cambridge, England. The scientists detained were Erich Bagge, Kurt Diebner, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Werner Heisenberg, Horst Korsching, Max von Laue, Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker and Karl Wirtz. Their conversations were...
World Scientific, NJ, USA, 2017. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 9813145935. This book is a collection of personal memories about the people who participated in the USSR atomic project - Landau, Alikhanov, Pomeranchuk, Alikhanian, Migdal Jr., Gribov, Zeldovich, Sakharov, Kurchatov, Vannikov, Eldian. As the author is the only living person who was involved in the project, these personal...
Anchor Academic Publishing, 2013. — 68 p. Throughout human history there may hardly be found any other single decision that still causes such high amounts of scholarly debate as does the dropping of Atomic Bombs upon the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 6th 1945, and respectively, three days later upon the city of Nagasaki. These events have caused close to 100 000...