Subtitled: My Journey into the Secret World of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Design Data.
With chapter titles such as: Inside the Black World of “Atomic Weapon Data”;
Zen and the Art of Atomic Weapons Design;
Known Weights of A-Bomb Plutonium and Oralloy Weapon Cores;
Confessions of the High Priest of Thermonuclear Annihilation;
Classified “Restricted Data – Category Sigma 1”;
The Light at the End of the Labyrinth;
Apocalypse Wow!;
The Long Shadow of the “Demon Core”;
Stockpile-to-Target Sequence.
Thoroughly covers the functionality, how nuclear weapons work in extreme detail, the secrecy, and the history of U.S. nuclear weapons, the science of atomic and hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, ballistic missiles, and reentry vehicles. Heavily annotated, cover such topics as: the Primary and Secondary of a Two-Stage H-Bomb, Levitation/Hollow Core; Deuterium/Tritium Gas Boosting, Fractional Crit Weapons, List of Weapon Critical Masses, and lots more. This book will blow your mind with all the "secrets" exposed. I count at least 150 separate items of Restricted Data, Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information. Now with pictures and figures!
With chapter titles such as: Inside the Black World of “Atomic Weapon Data”;
Zen and the Art of Atomic Weapons Design;
Known Weights of A-Bomb Plutonium and Oralloy Weapon Cores;
Confessions of the High Priest of Thermonuclear Annihilation;
Classified “Restricted Data – Category Sigma 1”;
The Light at the End of the Labyrinth;
Apocalypse Wow!;
The Long Shadow of the “Demon Core”;
Stockpile-to-Target Sequence.
Thoroughly covers the functionality, how nuclear weapons work in extreme detail, the secrecy, and the history of U.S. nuclear weapons, the science of atomic and hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, ballistic missiles, and reentry vehicles. Heavily annotated, cover such topics as: the Primary and Secondary of a Two-Stage H-Bomb, Levitation/Hollow Core; Deuterium/Tritium Gas Boosting, Fractional Crit Weapons, List of Weapon Critical Masses, and lots more. This book will blow your mind with all the "secrets" exposed. I count at least 150 separate items of Restricted Data, Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information. Now with pictures and figures!
