Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... Edward Teller soon recognized the theoretical potential of a self-sustaining, multiplicative neutron chain reaction, setting the stage for applying the newly discovered fission process to make nuclear explosives. Szilard originated and ...
... Edward Teller soon recognized the theoretical potential of a self-sustaining, multiplicative neutron chain reaction, setting the stage for applying the newly discovered fission process to make nuclear explosives. Szilard originated and ...
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... Edward Teller - to discuss designs for an atomic bomb . 1 1 The gun - barrel method for achieving an atomic explosion was devised at Los Alamos , and isotopic separation to produce the enriched uranium required for its fissile core was ...
... Edward Teller - to discuss designs for an atomic bomb . 1 1 The gun - barrel method for achieving an atomic explosion was devised at Los Alamos , and isotopic separation to produce the enriched uranium required for its fissile core was ...
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... Teller worked almost exclusively on the Super , the AEC General Advisory Committee in the late 1940s , with ... Edward Teller , who then became the chief advocate of the " Super , " as that early design of a thermonuclear bomb became ...
... Teller worked almost exclusively on the Super , the AEC General Advisory Committee in the late 1940s , with ... Edward Teller , who then became the chief advocate of the " Super , " as that early design of a thermonuclear bomb became ...
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... Edward Teller's obsession with his original “Super” design might have wasted years “working on the wrong thing,” thus putting the United States behind the Soviets in development of a militarily useful thermonuclear weapon.77 The largest ...
... Edward Teller's obsession with his original “Super” design might have wasted years “working on the wrong thing,” thus putting the United States behind the Soviets in development of a militarily useful thermonuclear weapon.77 The largest ...
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... Edward Teller and the Livermore nuclear - weapons laboratory , the Strategic Defense Initiative became a personal aspiration of President Reagan . Teller had convinced him that space- based x - ray lasers , driven by nuclear explosions ...
... Edward Teller and the Livermore nuclear - weapons laboratory , the Strategic Defense Initiative became a personal aspiration of President Reagan . Teller had convinced him that space- based x - ray lasers , driven by nuclear explosions ...
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Page 43 - In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Page 102 - Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.
Page 98 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 46 - Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
Page 44 - We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamlin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper.