Keyword

nuclear weapons development

Description: The research, design, engineering, and production activities through which nuclear weapons and related delivery capabilities are created or improved.

Primary topic: Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (40%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/nuclear-weapons-development

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

1986 · Richard Rhodes · 622

China Builds the Bomb

1988 · John W. Lewis, Litai Xue · Stanford University Press eBooks · 281

Dark sun: the making of the hydrogen bomb

1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 193

Now It Can be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project.

1962 · Vincent C. Jones, Leslie R. Groves, et al. · Military Affairs · 178

Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change

1996 · Donald MacKenzie · 146

German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–49

1989 · Mark Walker · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 112

The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures On How to Build an Atomic Bomb.

1992 · Frank A. Settle, Robert Serber, et al. · The Journal of Military History · 108

Atomic Energy for Military Purposes

1945 · H. D. Smyth · Reviews of Modern Physics · 106

Atomic Energy for Military Purposes

1946 · Nature · 97

Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project

2017 · Groves, Leslie R · The SHAFR Guide Online · 96

Adventures of a Mathematician

1991 · Ulam/Hirsch, S. M. Ulam, et al. · University of California Press eBooks · 79

Stalin and the Bomb. The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956

1995 · David Holloway, Jonathan Coopersmith · American Journal of Physics · 75

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

1996 · Richard Rhodes, Art Hobson · American Journal of Physics · 71

Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-1952

1976 · John W. Holmes, Margaret Gowing · International Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis · 67

The Manhattan Project: Making the atomic bomb

1994 · USDOE Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, Washington, DC (United States), F Gosling, et al. · 66

From Polaris to Trident

1994 · Graham Spinardi · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 64

James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age

1996 · William Richard Smyser, James G. Hershberg · German Studies Review · 61

Revisiting Osirak: Preventive Attacks and Nuclear Proliferation Risks

2011 · Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer · International Security · 60

Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945

1994 · Richard Melzer, Lillian Hoddeson · Western Historical Quarterly · 60

Britain, Australia and the Bomb

2006 · Lorna Arnold, Mark Smith · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 54

U. S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History.

1989 · Jeffrey G. Barlow, Chuck Hansen · The Journal of Military History · 53

Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945

1980 · Lawrence Badash, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, et al. · Springer eBooks · 52

Making the MIRV : a study of defense decision making

1975 · Ted Greenwood · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 52

Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb

1967 · Kendall Birr, Stephane Groueff · The American Historical Review · 52

The Manhattan Project: the birth of the atomic bomb in the words of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians

2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 50

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Citation count: 7,024