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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.
Erika Callagon La Plante, Yi-Hsuan Hsiao (UCLA), Isabella Pignatelli (Université de Lorraine), Aditya Kumar (Missouri Univ Sci Technol), N.M. Anoop Krishnan (India Inst of Technology), Tandre Oey (UCLA), Howard Dobbs (Univ of California, Santa Barbara), Yingtian Yu (UCLA), Bu Wang (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison), Narayanan Neithalath (Arizona State Univ), Kevin G. Field (ORNL), Jacob Israelachvili (Univ of California, Santa Barbara), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Mathieu Bauchy, Gaurav Sant (UCLA)
Proceedings | 19th International Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems - Water Reactors | Boston, MA, August 18-22, 2019 | Pages 582-586
