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* Glasstone and Dolan's ''[http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml The Effects of Nuclear Weapons]'' is mandatory reading, and freely available online. | * Glasstone and Dolan's ''[http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml The Effects of Nuclear Weapons]'' is mandatory reading, and freely available online. | ||
* IANUS scientists Andre Gsponer and Jean-Pierre Hurni authored the technical report "[http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/INESAPTR1.html The Physical Principles Of Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial Confinement Fusion, And The Quest For Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons]". It can be ordered or downloaded from the IANUS website. | * IANUS scientists Andre Gsponer and Jean-Pierre Hurni authored the technical report "[http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/INESAPTR1.html The Physical Principles Of Thermonuclear Explosives, Inertial Confinement Fusion, And The Quest For Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons]". It can be ordered or downloaded from the IANUS website. | ||
* Also worth checking out: McPhee's <i>The Curve of Binding Energy</i>, <i>[http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Assembly-Technical-Oppenheimer-1943-1945/dp/0521541174/ref=ed_oe_p Critical Assembly]</i> | |||
There's pretty much an endless line of popular-audience books about nuclear weapons, especially their early design and the characters behind them (I've got about a dozen biographies of J. Robert Oppenheimer alone). These require no particular scientific or mathematic background. Of them, the best include: | There's pretty much an endless line of popular-audience books about nuclear weapons, especially their early design and the characters behind them (I've got about a dozen biographies of J. Robert Oppenheimer alone). These require no particular scientific or mathematic background. Of them, the best include: | ||
