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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
H. Tanaka, M. Sakamoto, K. Furutachi, K. Oki, M. Mizuguchi, Y. Nagatsuka, M. Yoshikawa, R. Nohara, M. Yoshikawa, J. Kohagura, N. Ohno, Y. Tsuji
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 1 | July 2015 | Pages 125-129
Technical Paper | Open Magnetic Systems 2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-874
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Propagation behavior of 3–4 kHz electron density fluctuation in the core and edge regions was investigated in the GAMMA 10 tandem mirror device. Frequency analysis was employed for high spatiotemporal-resolution fluctuations measured by gold neutral beam probe (GNBP) in the central cell and Langmuir probes in the end region. We found same-frequency periodic fluctuations in both signals and applied the correlation analysis technique. By considering the geometry of the measurement system, propagation speeds of the periodic fluctuation along and across the magnetic field lines were estimated.