Doomsday men : the real Dr. Strangelove and the dream of the superweapon / P.D. Smith.

This is the untold story of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. In 1950, Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard made a dramatic announcement on American radio: science was on the verge of creating a doomsday bomb, a huge cobalt-clad H-bomb that would pollute the atmosphere with radioactivity and...

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Main Author:	Smith, Peter D. (Peter Daniel), 1965-
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	Atomic bomb > History. Scientists > Moral and ethical aspects. Szilard, Leo. Fermi, Enrico, > 1901-1954. Kernwapens.
Physical Description:	xxii, 552 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book