[10] February 20 - Why build the hydrogen bomb?
Discussion leader: Tijana
Assigned reading:
Peter Galison and Barton Bernstein, "In any light: Scientists and the decision to build the superbomb, 1952-1954," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 19 (1989): 267-347.
David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb (1994), chapter 14 (The Hydrogen Bomb).
Additional reading:
German A. Goncharov, "Beginnings of the Soviet H-Bomb Program," Physics Today (November 1996): 50-55.
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