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Super Bomb
Organizational Conflict and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Young, a British academic, took Schilling's material, carried out some additional research, and crafted a compelling book that was published posthumously.
» Foreign Affairs
Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives and previously hidden contemporaneous interviews with more than sixty. Les mer
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Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a "super," or hydrogen, bomb. That fateful decision and its immediate consequences are detailed in a diverse and complete account built on newly released archives and previously hidden contemporaneous interviews with more than sixty...
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9781501745164
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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Young, a British academic, took Schilling's material, carried out some additional research, and crafted a compelling book that was published posthumously.
» Foreign Affairs
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Super Bomb is well written, cogently argued, and deeply researched. The narrative is supported with robust archival materials and illuminating contemporaneous interviews with myriad policy makers, scientists, and officers who personally witnessed—and in many cases influenced—this critical episode.
» Choice
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Sixty years of gestation makes Super Bomb a unique book and, intellectually speaking, an interesting archaeological find.
» Perspectives on Politics
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[T]he long delay in having the project come to fruition is a serendipitous boon for historians. hHe interviews contain many near-contemporaneous observations and insights from the principals in the superbomb decision.
» journal of cold war studies
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