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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.
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Robert Freda is a designer and technologist. He co-founded clean energy hydroelectric start-up, GenH. He is an MIT research affiliate with CANES and former creative director at Polo Ralph Lauren. Robert has won national awards in design (CFDA Men's, Pratt NTS Architecture) and holds multiple patents in energy generation technologies and associated systems. He has contributed to state of the art in n-dimensional matrix analysis & compression and momentum theory for fluid energy extraction in confined channels. Rob has published in the art on fluid dynamics, best practice market strategies, and system architectures for IPTV/wireless converged networks. He has been the designer for scale ($2+ billion) business units and built new brands in luxury markets. His area of expertise in energy systems is modular systems' techno-economic design, its application to nuclear energy and redesigned renewable energy in combined systems, and its competitive advantage in market, risk, and socio-economic dimensions.
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