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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.
M. M. R. Williams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 1 | January 2020 | Pages 84-85
Addendum | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2019.1687193
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The main purpose of the above paper [Nuclear Science and Engineering, Volume 193, p. 327 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1531620] was to test out a variety of approximate methods for inverting a generating function. This task was accomplished fully and is unconnected with the misunderstanding that we wish to report here, which concerns how the source multiplier is used once it has been obtained.