Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux, Volume 1DeVolpi, Inc., 2004 - 500 pages |
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... Manhattan Project, eventually combining American and British programs, was organized in 1942 to systematically create an explosive based on the fission chain reaction. It became a resourceful and remarkable program, well funded and ...
... Manhattan Project, eventually combining American and British programs, was organized in 1942 to systematically create an explosive based on the fission chain reaction. It became a resourceful and remarkable program, well funded and ...
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... Manhattan Project and the results of the Trinity test. As the German invaders started to retreat from Soviet borders, Stalin established a secret nuclear development project jump started by prewar scientific nuclear initiatives. He also ...
... Manhattan Project and the results of the Trinity test. As the German invaders started to retreat from Soviet borders, Stalin established a secret nuclear development project jump started by prewar scientific nuclear initiatives. He also ...
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... Manhattan Project, and his military laboratories made a weapon that appears (according to published photographs) to be nearly identical to the “Fat Man” exploded over Nagasaki. More recently there were allegations that China has ...
... Manhattan Project, and his military laboratories made a weapon that appears (according to published photographs) to be nearly identical to the “Fat Man” exploded over Nagasaki. More recently there were allegations that China has ...
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... project was thwarted also by German arrogance , complacency , rivalries , and the consequences of losing talented ... Manhattan Project ” or the “ Manhattan Engineering Project ” was initiated to create a nuclear explosive . Formed in ...
... project was thwarted also by German arrogance , complacency , rivalries , and the consequences of losing talented ... Manhattan Project ” or the “ Manhattan Engineering Project ” was initiated to create a nuclear explosive . Formed in ...
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... Manhattan Project , this initiative lead to the development by Argonne National Laboratory of reactors for power , propulsion , and materials testing . ) While the intensive espionage conducted by the Soviets during World War II seems ...
... Manhattan Project , this initiative lead to the development by Argonne National Laboratory of reactors for power , propulsion , and materials testing . ) While the intensive espionage conducted by the Soviets during World War II seems ...
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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.