John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues

• Alex Wellerstein ^[1]
  1. [1] Stevens Institute of Technology

     Stevens Institute of Technology

     City of Hoboken, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Physics today, ISSN 0031-9228, Vol. 72, Nº. 12, 2019, págs. 42-51
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the eminent physicist lost a classified document, about the hydrogen bomb, on an overnight train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC.