Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
ISBN-10
0684824140
ISBN-13
9780684824147
Series
Dark Sun
Category
History
Pages
736
Language
English
Published
1996-08-06
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Richard Rhodes

Description

Tells the story of the making of the H-bomb and reveals how it created a nuclear stalemate that lasted forty years.

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