Different minds in the jigsaw puzzle of H-bomb story
History and Philosophy of Physics
2020-04-01 v2
Abstract
The Super-bomb issue contained two problems: feasibility of physical engineering and political need to get H-bomb ASAP. And there were two radically different assessments of these problems by outstanding physicists Hans Bethe and Edward Teller, connected by many years of personal friendship and engaged in the US nuclear project from the very beginning, as the head of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos and the leading figure in thermonuclear research. This puzzle is solved by using the history of the Soviet H-bomb, in particular the declassified documents on the role of Klaus Fuchs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2003.12696,
title = {Different minds in the jigsaw puzzle of H-bomb story},
author = {Gennady Gorelik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12696},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures