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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.
Sri Saravana Konganapuram Narasimma Bharath (SUNY Polytechnic Institute), Bhavani Sasank Nagothi (SUNY Polytechnic Institute), Eric Wales (SUNY Polytechnic Institute), John Arnason (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Matthew Armstrong (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), Kathleen Dunn (SUNY Polytechnic Institute)
Proceedings | Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023) | New Orleans, LA, December 10-14, 2023 | Pages 332-332
