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71nuclear strategy — ▪ military Introduction the formation of tenets and strategies for producing and using nuclear weapons. Nuclear strategy is no different from any other form of strategy in that it involves relating military means to political ends. In this …
72Antimatter weapon — An antimatter weapon is a hypothetical device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon. Antimatter weapons do not currently exist outside fiction (such as Star Trek s photon torpedo). The United States Air… …
73Operation Greenhouse — Greenhouse George Information Country United States Test site Pacific Proving Grounds Period April May 1951 Number …
74Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich — ▪ Soviet physicist born July 8 [June 26, Old Style], 1895, Vladivostok, Siberia, Russia died April 12, 1971, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physics with Pavel A. Cherenkov (Cherenkov, Pavel… …
75Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin — ▪ American scientist born April 13, 1909, Lemberg, Poland, Austrian Empire [now Lviv, Ukraine] died May 13, 1984, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. mathematician who played a major role in the development of the hydrogen bomb at Los Alamos, New… …
76Khariton, Yuly Borisovich — ▪ 1997 Russian physicist who figured prominently in the development of nuclear physics research in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 40s and, as director of the nuclear research centre Arzamas 16, oversaw the construction of the first… …
77Castle Romeo — was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX 17 thermonuclear weapon (initially the emergency capability EC 17), the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear… …
78Stirling Colgate — (born 1925) was America s premier diagnostician of thermonuclear weapons at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. He was among the few that initially realized that the emissions of supernovae could have set off American… …
79W39 — The Mark 39 nuclear bomb and W39 nuclear warhead were versions of an American thermonuclear weapon, which were in service from 1957 to 1966.The Mark 39 design was a thermonuclear bomb (see Teller Ulam design) and had a yield of 3.8 megatons. The… …
80SM-65 Atlas — Main article: Atlas (rocket family) B 65/SM 65/CGM 16/HGM 16 Atlas Launch of an SM 65A Atlas from LC 12, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 20 February 1958 Type …
