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By Barbara Moran
Presidio Press
Released: 2009-04-28
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In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber’s payload–four unarmed thermonuclear bombs–across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history.
Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America’s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations.
As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks.
The Day We Lost the H-Bomb is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons–and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.
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By Richard Rhodes
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years. |
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By John Bankston
Mitchell Lane Publishers
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Often called the "father of the hydrogen bomb," Edward Teller believes that the device he helped invent, with its potential to kill millions of people, actually made the world a safer place. "I am still asked on occasion whether I am not sorry for having invented such a terrible thing as the hydrogen bomb," he says. "The answer is, I am not." Teller adamantly believes that what he did saved lives. He believes that his discoveries changed the world for the better. A pioneer of the atomic age and one of the many brilliant scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, Edward Teller is as controversial today as he was fifty years ago. A Hungarian immigrant, Teller fled Nazi Germany and successfully proved that the atomic bomb could be used without creating a world-destroying chain reaction. But his choices and beliefs have been questioned not just by citizens and government officials, but also by his fellow scientists. Some regard him as a genius and some as a hated person who developed a weapon 1,000 times more destructive than the first atom bomb. Regardless of the opinion people have of him, his impact on the twentieth century is undeniable. |
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By U.S. Government
Progressive Management
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This updated and expanded electronic book on CD-ROM has a comprehensive collection of federal documents and publications covering all aspects of the history and consequences of nuclear testing by the United States in the Marshall Islands, including the Bikini, Rongelap, Enewetak, and Utrok Atolls in the Pacific. The Marshall Islands atomic weapons testing era, from 1946 through 1958, saw the world's first hydrogen bomb explosion and encompassed a number of famous tests: Operation Crossroads, featuring the world's third and fourth atomic explosions (Able and Baker) at the Bikini Atoll; Operation Sandstone; Operation Greenhouse; Operation Ivy which included test Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb; Operation Castle, in which the 1954 test Bravo exceeded expected yields and produced extensive fallout contamination. The exposure of Japanese fishermen aboard the Fukuru Maru (Lucky Dragon) provoked worldwide controversy and impacted the tuna industry. Operation Redwing followed in 1956, with the last series of Marshall Islands tests conducted as Operation Hardtack in 1958. In subsequent years, the treatment of the peoples of the Marshall Islands became a major issue, and the Department of Energy is still working on the problem. The Marshall Islands Program was established in 1954 by the Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor agency to the Department of Energy (DOE), following the accidental exposure of people present on two atolls, Rongelap and Utrõk, to fallout from the U.S. nuclear test at the Bikini atoll. The program has two components: A special medical program that provides annual comprehensive medical screenings to detect and treat tumors, and a radiological and environmental monitoring program to characterize the radioactive materials in the environment and in naturally occurring food plants in the four contaminated atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrõk, in order to facilitate the resettlement of these atolls, two of which are resettled. The DOE responsibility to provide medical surveillance and care, environmental monitoring and characterization, and dose assessment for the peoples of the Marshall Islands is contained in U.S. Public Law. Since 1956, DOE and its predecessor agencies have provided state-of-the-art diagnosis and treatment for the DOE patient population of Rongelap and Utrõk atolls. Contents include: Historical Documents * Chronology of Events * Programs * Environmental Documents * Dose Data * Health and Safety * Radiological Monitoring Programs and Documents * Dose Assessment * Health Effects on Veterans and Marshallese * Environmental Studies * Correspondence This incredible CD-ROM is packed with over 14,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. |
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By G. C. Peden
Cambridge University Press
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This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments. |
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By James R. Shepley
Greenwood Press Reprint
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By James R Shepley
Jarrolds
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By Chuck Hansen
Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Released: 2005-07-28
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on September 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1524 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
Author: Chuck Hansen
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1995
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: v51 Issue: n5 Page: p52(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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By F.J. Prorffer, M.D. William
World Wide Pub Corp
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By Richard. Rhodes
Simon & Schuster,
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