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Building the H bomb : a personal history
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- Creator
- Kenneth W Ford
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific Publishing, [2015]
- ©2015
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789814632072, 9814632074, 9789814618793, 9814618799
- OCLC
- ocn890178402
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.
- The big idea -- The protagonists -- The choice -- The scientists, the officials, and the president -- Nuclear energy -- Some physics -- Going west -- A new world -- The classical super -- Calculating and testing -- Constructing Matterhorn -- Academia cowers -- New Mexico, New York, and New Jersey -- The Garwin design -- Climbing Matterhorn -- More than a boy