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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Question about Nuclear Weapons
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 05:19:57 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
>An excellent beginner's introduction to fission weapons is John McPhee, "The
>Curve of Binding Energy" (Farrar Strauss Giroux, NY, 1976).  The technical
>details of fusion weapons are harder to come by...

A book that is worth reading is Howard Morland's "The Secret That Exploded".
Morland was the author of the Progressive article that spilled the basic
design principle of the fusion bomb.  Morland worked exclusively from public
material and unclassified interviews, so his deductions have to be taken
with a grain of salt, but there is reason to believe he's close to the
truth in many respects.
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