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March 9, 1951
The Hydrogen Bomb
Edward
Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in
which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a
practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.
There
has been a lot written about the developments that led to the Teller-Ulam, design in the spring of 1951. The result of all this, though, was a report signed by
Teller and Ulam titled “On Heterocatalytic Detonations I. Hydrodynamic Lenses
and Radiation Mirrors,” report # LAMS-1225, dated March 9, 1951.
It’s
a 20 page document, and there were 20 copies made. Four of those were sent to
DC; 14 of them kept at Los Alamos; and one of them was given to J. Robert
Oppenheimer directly.
Born 65 years ago?
Then congratulations for entering the world of Medicare. If you would like to
know more about the maze we call Medicare
…
