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Article: Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Article from:
- Airpower Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright U.S. Superintendent of Documents Fall 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Simon and Schuster, Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York 10020,1995, 731 pages, $32.50.
Richard Rhodes won a Pulitzer prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, to which Dark Sun is a sequel. In this work, the author narrates the development of the hydrogen bomb, in both the United States and, through the "transfer of technology," in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But this is also a detective story of the highest order and most profound importance. Rhodes revisits the development of the atomic bombs of World War II and examines how the Russians built a spy system to transfer that knowledge from the US ...