[ExI] Interesting book

[SR Ballard]

> A lot of that is declassified now.  Typically 50 years is long enough to keep that stuff secret.  If one is really interested in this topic, I do highly recommend Richard Rhodes’ excellent “Making of the Atomic Bomb” for he really did his homework on that one.  Lotsa physics in there but it is not out of reach of the non-geek.  He really put a lot of the heart and soul into that story.
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> Feynman has also written a lot about that episode of history.
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> spike

“According to a recent log of purchase information, “Atomic Bombs” is sought after mainly by people whose e-mail addresses identify them as members of the nation’s secret nuclear archipelago: LANL, LLNL, SNL, ORNL, ANL, Pantex, Fermilab, the Hanford and Savannah River nuclear plants, the F.B.I.

“Thanks again for the great book,” a nuclear worker named Lee recently wrote to Coster-Mullen. “As soon as I finish it, my son, who’s on the 61 program”—maintaining the stockpile of variants of the original B-61 nuclear bombs—“will be reading it, probably in one of the assembly bays.”

Many customers seem to enjoy thumbing their noses at U.S. security officials, who remain determined to keep the bomb’s precise technical specifications a mystery. “

The book is more in the vein of the physical size of components and the way that they literally fit together, and are shaped. 

SR Ballard
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