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Building the bombs

a history of the nuclear weapons complex

3rd ed.
Building the bombs
Charles R. Loeber, Charles R. ...
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September 7, 2024 | History
An edition of Building the bombs (2002)

Building the bombs

a history of the nuclear weapons complex

3rd ed.

The Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) is a nationwide group of government-owned sites that is responsible for the design, development, production, modification, repair, assemble, disassembly, and testing of all nuclear weapons in the U S stockpile. The NWC has evolved since the beginning of the Manhattan Project in 1942 to meet national security objectives. It has met these objectives by: building the weapons that ended World War II; building a stockpile of weapons that served as a deterrent to the Soviet Union during the Cold War; incorporating new technologies into the stockpile; safely downsizing the stockpile and dismantling the excess nuclear weapons after the Cold War was over, and ensuring that the remaining stockpile is safe and reliable. This book provides a high level summary of this story. It begins in 1905 with Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and his famous equation, E=mc2, and ends in the year 2001 with a discussion of the post-Cold War challenges for the NWC. It explains how and why the NWC grew from three sites at the start of the Manhattan Project to over fifty sites at the height of the Cold War, to eight sites-three laboratories, four production plants and one test site-after the Cold War ended.

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Building the bombs: a history of the nuclear weapons complex
2012, Sandia National Laboratories
in English - 3rd ed.
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Building the bombs: a history of the nuclear weapons complex
2005, Sandia National Laboratories
in English - 2nd ed.
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Building The Bombs: A History Of The Nuclear Weapons Complex
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Building The Bombs: History Of The Nuclear Weapons Complex
July 30, 2002, United States Government Printing
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Building the bombs: a history of the nuclear weapons complex
2002, Sandia National Laboratories
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Table of Contents

Einstein opens the door
The Manhattan Project
German atomic bomb program
Espionage during the Manhattan Project
Creating the Cold War
Two scorpions in a bottle
Tests and test sites
Performance improvements
To the brink
Safety and security improvements
Ending the Cold War
Maintaining deterrence
Epilogue
Appendices.

Edition Notes

Shipping list no.: 2013-0093-P.

"SAND # 2012-7878P"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000."--P. iv.

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Albuquerque, N.M
Other Titles
History of the nuclear weapons complex
Copyright Date
2002

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Library of Congress
U264 .L63 2012

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Pagination
xviii, 266 p.
Number of pages
266

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Open Library
OL53734802M
OCLC/WorldCat
828180110

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