One physicist's guide to nuclear weapons : a global perspective /

One Physicist's Guide to Nuclear Weapons presents a truly global look at the history, use, and issues surrounding nuclear weapons from the perspective of physicist and writer Jeremy Bernstein. A first-hand witness to the development and science of nuclear weapons, he is in a unique position to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2016]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP expanding physics.
Temas:
Nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons > History.
Science.
SCIENCE / Physics / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • 1. My up-close experience
  • 2. The United States and Great Britain in World War II
  • 3. The physics of fission
  • 4. Nazi Germany's failed program
  • 5. More bomb physics
  • 6. Centrifuges and proliferation : India and Pakistan
  • 7. Israel, North Korea and Iran
  • 8. Scorpions in a bottle
  • 9. Latent threats
  • 10. Oppenheimer's lives
  • 11. L'envoi.

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