One physicist's guide to nuclear weapons : a global perspective /

One Physicist's Guide to Nuclear Weapons presents a truly global look at the history, use, and issues surrounding nuclear weapons from the perspective of physicist and writer Jeremy Bernstein. A first-hand witness to the development and science of nuclear weapons, he is in a unique position to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2016]
Series:	IOP (Series). Release 3. IOP expanding physics.
Subjects:	Nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons > History. Science. SCIENCE / Physics / General. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Preface
Foreword
1. My up-close experience
2. The United States and Great Britain in World War II
3. The physics of fission
4. Nazi Germany's failed program
5. More bomb physics
6. Centrifuges and proliferation : India and Pakistan
7. Israel, North Korea and Iran
8. Scorpions in a bottle
9. Latent threats
10. Oppenheimer's lives
11. L'envoi.