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The advisors : Oppenheimer, Teller, and the superbomb

First published in 1976, this reissue (with an updated epilogue and a concluding essay by Hans A. Bethe) initiates the Stanford Nuclear Age Series, devoted to addressing the problems of the nuclear age through scholarship in the national security-arms control field. This volume examines the secret debate between the advocates and opponents of the hydrogen bomb following the discovery in September 1949 that the Soviet Union had broken the US nuclear monopoly

Print Book, English, 1989, ©1976
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1989, ©1976