Operation Upshot-Knothole. Project 5.1. Atomic Weapon Effects on AD Type Aircraft in Flight

1954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Rogin ◽  
Alden C. DuPont ◽  
Christian G. Weeber
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Weapon

Scientific Director's Report of Atomic Weapon Tests at Eniwetok, 1951. Annex 1.6. Blast Measurements, Part I. Summary Report.

1951 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. K. Hartmann ◽  
C. W. Lampson ◽  
C. J. Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Summary Report ◽  
Atomic Weapon

Relative Effectiveness of Neutrons for Production of Delayed Biological Effects: II. Effect of Single Doses of Neutrons from an Atomic Weapon on Life Span of Mice

1958 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Storer ◽  
B. S. Rogers ◽  
I. U. Boone ◽  
P. S. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Atomic Weapon

4. Race for the H-bomb

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Siracusa
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
National Character ◽  
The Political ◽  
Window Of Opportunity ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Atomic Weapons ◽  
Hydrogen Bomb ◽  
Human Control ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Atomic Weapon

America’s monopoly on atomic weapons was shorter than expected. ‘Race for the H-bomb’ details the development of the hydrogen bomb and the political developments surrounding it. The Soviet Union developed an atomic weapon faster than worst-case scenarios had predicted. Stalin appeared at first to dismiss the bomb, but it is likely that his understanding was more nuanced. What else could America have done with their short window of opportunity? Some argued for preventive war, but this went against the national character. The development of the hydrogen bomb took war out of the realms of logic and human control altogether, and anti-nuclear movements began to gather force in the 1950s.

Lead Isotopic Composition of Trinitite Melt Glass: Evidence for the Presence of Canadian Industrial Lead in the First Atomic Weapon Test

2013 ◽  
Vol 85 (15) ◽  
pp. 7588-7593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy J. Bellucci ◽  
Antonio Simonetti ◽  
Christine Wallace ◽  
Elizabeth C. Koeman ◽  
Peter C. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Isotopic Composition ◽  
Melt Glass ◽  
Weapon Test ◽  
Lead Isotopic Composition ◽  
Atomic Weapon

scholarly journals Literary Imagination on the Atomic Weapon in 1940s~1960s Korea Peninsula

2012 ◽  
Vol null (43) ◽  
pp. 327-363
Author(s):  
Kwon Boduerae
Keyword(s):  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Atomic Weapon

Jacob Bronowski: a humanist intellectual for an atomic age, 1946–1956

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALPH DESMARAIS
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Atomic Age ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
Pure Mathematician ◽  
Atomic Weapon ◽  
Weapon Development

AbstractJacob (‘Bruno’) Bronowski (1908–1974), on the basis of having examined the effects of the atomic bombing of Japan in late 1945, became one of Britain's most vocal and best-known scientific intellectuals engaged in the cultural politics of the early atomic era. Witnessing Hiroshima helped transform him from pure mathematician–poet to scientific administrator; from obscurity to fame on the BBC airwaves and in print; and, crucially, from literary intellectual who promoted the superior truthfulness of poetry and poets to scientific humanist insisting that science and scientists were the standard-bearers of truth. A cornerstone of Bronowski's humanist ideology was that Hiroshima and the bomb had become symbols of the public's distrust of science, whereas, in reality, science was merely a scapegoat for society's loss of moral compass; more correctly, he stressed, science and scientists epitomized positive moral values. When discussing atomic energy, especially after 1949, Bronowski not only downplayed the bomb's significance but was deliberately vague regarding Britain's atomic weapon development programme; this lack of candour was compounded by Bronowski's evasiveness regarding his own prior involvement with wartime bombing. The net effect was a substantial contribution to British scientific intellectuals' influential yet frequently misleading accounts of the relations between science and war in the early atomic era.

scholarly journals Otto Robert Frisch, 1 October 1904 - 22 September 1979

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 283-306 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fission Process ◽  
Otto Robert Frisch ◽  
Atomic Weapon ◽  
The Craftsman

O. R. Frisch brought to physics the approach of a craftsman. He enjoyed, above all, doing experiments with his own hands, preferably on apparatus of his own design, aimed at simple basic questions. This approach required the ability to think about the important problems of physics simply, but deeply, an ability underlying the two contributions for which he was best known: his share in the explanation of the fission process and that in the recognition of the feasibility of an atomic weapon. The craftsman was also something of an artist, not only in his love for music and his skill and taste as a pianist and a violinist, but in the use of language, which made him an outstanding expositor. There were many problems, in physics and elsewhere, which he regarded as interesting, and these he pursued persistently, in depth, until he saw convincing answers in simple terms, and he evidently enjoyed himself in doing so. He equally firmly refused to become involved with matters other than those which he had decided were of interest to him.

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