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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
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The Cold War and the Nuclear War
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 92, I ran over there as quickly as I could. They had a design for a bomb that they said was half the weight on twice the yield of the fat man bomb. And it weighed about, I don't know, 9,000 pounds. So they had a much smaller and much more deliverable,. therefore bomb with the yield of about 44 kilotons. By 1947, they had first class physicists, seven union, they do in record today.
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