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At the Heart of the Bomb: The Dangerous Allure of Weapons Work |
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From Publishers Weekly
To the scientists and engineers who design nuclear weapons at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, comfortable routine has replaced Promethean purpose. Many of these technicians, according to Rosenthal, see themselves as working not on bombs, but rather on a tiny, technically interesting facet of a larger project. One scientist interviewed compares the neutron bomb to a rifle and implies that there is no ethical distinction between them. ... >> |
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Stellarator and Heliotron Devices (International Series of Monographs on Physics) |
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Book Description
This monograph describes plasma physics for magnetic confinement of high temperature plasmas in nonaxisymmetric toroidal magnetic fields or stellarators. The author covers all aspects of magnetic confinement, formation of magnetic surfaces, magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability, single charged particle confinement, neoclassical transport and plasma heating. ... >> |
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