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Super bomb : organizational conflict and the development of the hydrogen bomb / Ken Young and Warner R. Schilling.
LIBRA UG1282.A8 Y68 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Ken, 1943-2019, author.
- Schilling, Warner R. (Warner Roller), 1925-2013, author.
- Series:
- Cornell studies in security affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hydrogen bomb--United States--History.
- Hydrogen bomb.
- Hydrogen bomb--Government policy--United States--History.
- Arms race--History--20th century.
- Arms race.
- History.
- Government policy.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Addresses the question of why President Harry Truman decided to go ahead and develop the H-bomb and with what means dissenters opposed it for several years afterward"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The shock of the "new world"
- Advising on the Super
- A decision reached
- Moral and political consequences
- Dissent and development
- Tactical diversions
- Rewriting Los Alamos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Young, Ken (Director). Super bomb.
- ISBN:
- 9781501745164
- 1501745166
- OCLC:
- 1099539357
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