The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb
by York, Herbert F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Review bookplate with pr
- ISBN 10
- 0716707187
- ISBN 13
- 9780716707189
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1976. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Review bookplate with previous owner's information added in ink. Some underlining and marginalia noted.. x, 175 p. Notes. Index. The advsors is an absorbing look at the technical, strategic, and human aspects of the great debate that led to the decision to build the first hydrogen bomb. Based on the author's own particiaption in Project Superbomb, on interviews with other particpants, and on declassified documents, this book explains the complete background to this major acceleration fo the nuclear arms race.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60568
- Title
- The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb
- Author
- York, Herbert F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Review bookplate with pr
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0716707187
- ISBN 13
- 9780716707189
- Publisher
- W.H. Freeman and Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Hydrogen Bomb, Thermonuclear, Igor Golovin, Ernest Lawrence, David Lilienthal, Lewis Strauss, David Griggs, Norris Bradbury, Enrico Fermi, Atomic Energy Commission, USAEC
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