The nuclear express : a political history of the bomb and its proliferation / Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman.
Record details
- ISBN: 0760335028
- ISBN: 9780760335024
- Physical Description: viii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Minneapolis : Zenith Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Chapter 1 Big News: Fission Releases Neutrons! 8 -- Chapter 2 Los Alamos: A First, But Not the Last 12 -- Chapter 3 Raids on Japan 20 -- Chapter 4 U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom: Unintended Partners 26 -- Chapter 5 First Attempts at Controls 54 -- Chapter 6 France and Israel: The Apprentices 68 -- Chapter 7 China Breaks the European Cartel 84 -- Chapter 8 Nuclear Maturity Comes to the Little Three 114 -- Chapter 9 Struggling with the Barn Door 132 -- Chapter 10 Changes of State in the Mideast and South Asia 148 -- Chapter 11 South Africa 170 -- Chapter 12 Soviet Union 186 -- Chapter 13 Once-Nuclear Soviet Republics 204 -- Chapter 14 China's Decade of Nuclear Transparency 220 -- Chapter 15 Fakirs: India, Pakistan, and North Korea 236 -- Chapter 16 Fingerprints 268 -- Chapter 17 Star and Crescent Rising 278 -- Chapter 18 Georges-Antoine Kurtz is Alive and Well 302 -- Chapter 19 Why? 312 -- A Physics of Nuclear Weapon Design 340 -- B Bombing Missions over Japan by the 393rd (Nuclear) Bombardment Squadron, July 20-August 14, 1945 346 -- C U.S. Aircraft Accidents with Nuclear Weapons Aboard 348 -- D Principal Soviet Nuclear Production Facilities 352 -- E Notes on D. B. Stillman's Ten Visits to the Chinese Nuclear Weapon Complex, 1990-2001 354.
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