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Author Young, Ken, 1943-2019, author

Title Super bomb : organizational conflict and the development of the hydrogen bomb / Ken Young and Warner R. Schilling
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 221 pages)
Series Cornell studies in security affairs
Cornell studies in security affairs.
Contents The shock of the "new world" -- Advising on the Super -- A decision reached -- Moral and political consequences -- Dissent and development -- Tactical diversions -- Re-writing Los Alamos
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 02, 2020)
Subject Hydrogen bomb -- United States -- History
Hydrogen bomb -- Government policy -- United States -- History
Arms race -- History -- 20th century
Hydrogen bomb -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International)
Arms race
Hydrogen bomb
Military policy
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140466
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Schilling, Warner R. (Warner Roller), 1925-2013, author.
LC no. 2019020252
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