TY - GEN
T1 - The secret of the Soviet hydrogen bomb
AU - Wellerstein, Alex
AU - Geist, Edward
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Author(s).
PY - 2017/11/15
Y1 - 2017/11/15
N2 - Was the first Soviet thermonuclear device really a step in the wrong direction? No bomb design has been as much maligned or otherwise disparaged as the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. Detonated in August 1953, the bomb, officially tested under the name RDS-6s but usually known as Sloika or "layer cake" (the name Andrei Sakharov coined for it), was nothing to sneeze at. Shown in Figure 1 and able to be dropped from aircraft, it released the explosive equivalent, or yield, of almost half a megaton of TNT. The result was a blazing fireball with 20 times the power of the bomb that leveled Nagasaki, Japan.
AB - Was the first Soviet thermonuclear device really a step in the wrong direction? No bomb design has been as much maligned or otherwise disparaged as the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon. Detonated in August 1953, the bomb, officially tested under the name RDS-6s but usually known as Sloika or "layer cake" (the name Andrei Sakharov coined for it), was nothing to sneeze at. Shown in Figure 1 and able to be dropped from aircraft, it released the explosive equivalent, or yield, of almost half a megaton of TNT. The result was a blazing fireball with 20 times the power of the bomb that leveled Nagasaki, Japan.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.5009213
DO - 10.1063/1.5009213
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85036505285
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - Nuclear Weapons and Related Security Issues
A2 - Corden, Pierce
A2 - Macfarlane, Allison
A2 - Fainberg, Tony
A2 - Hafemeister, David
T2 - 5th Nuclear Weapons and Related Security Issues
Y2 - 21 April 2017 through 22 April 2017
ER -