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From: bales@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James W Bales)
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Subject: Re: Thermonuclear Trigger
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Date: 11 Dec 90 02:03:05 GMT
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From: bales@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James W Bales)
   henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) suggests the sources

     See John McPhee's "The Curve Of Binding Energy"
and Howard Morland's "The Secret That Exploded" 


   for information on nuclear triggers. Another source - and an magnificent
book in general - is Rhodes "The Making of the Atomic Bomb. In addition to
being an excellent history of the bomb, it is also a very good primer on
20th century physics for the interested lay person.


Jim Bales     bales@athena.mit.edu