John Richard Shanebrook

The History of Hydrogen Bomb and Why It Should Be Banned. (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the first applications of the atomic bomb after Nuclear War I was to serve as the trigger for much more powerful hydrogen bombs. The explosion of an atom bomb emits nuclear radiation, heat energy, and photons. These emissions compress fusion fuel to thermonuclear conditions.

From 1945 to 1949, the United States had a monopoly on nuclear weapons until August 29, 1949, when the USSR exploded its first nuclear device. Edward Teller was already actively working on the design of hydrogen bombs, but J. Robert Oppenheimer opposed these efforts. It was President Harry S. Truman who approved the US program to design, build, and test hydrogen bombs.

Meanwhile, the USSR had been secretly working on nuclear weapons since 1941, with extensive help from several spies, including Klaus Fuchs. Both the United States and the USSR achieved early success with hydrogen bombs, as was demonstrated by hundreds of test explosions that spread radioactive fallout around the entire Earth.

It was the US BRAVO test of a huge hydrogen explosive device on March 1, 1954, that brought matters to a conclusion. The radioactive fallout proved to be lethal over thousands of square miles. The result was an international ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere (1963).

However, the Wizards of Armageddon were busily preparing to fight, and maybe win, future wars fought with hydrogen bombs. These plans included risky maneuvers with live hydrogen bombs on planes, submarines, and other mobile devices. Accidents happened, and many hydrogen bombs were lost, blown apart, or simply abandoned.

The absolute worst aspect of hydrogen bomb explosions is global ecocide. The explosions are so powerful they harm the ozone layer and ignite huge fires on Earth that darken the skies. The latter was termed nuclear winter by Carl Sagan.

The conclusion of this book is very simple. All hydrogen bombs should be banned, forever

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504984850
• Artikelnr.: 52582380

Autorenporträt

John Richard Shanebrook, PhD, received his engineering education at Syracuse University, where he also taught courses in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering. His research was mentored by Dr. E. A. Eichebrenner, who previously was a student of the legendary professor I. Flügge-Lotz at Stanford University.

After several years of teaching and research in mechanical engineering, Dr. Shanebrook wrote several books. These focused on energy issues such as nuclear technology. These included the following:

1.) Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century, AuthorHouse, 2007

2.) The History of Nuclear War I, AuthorHouse, 2013

During his engineering career, the author published over ninety technical papers and invented or co-invented several biomedical engineering devices, including prosthetic heart valves and the Vortex Blood Pump. He has been an invited lecturer at many colleges and universities, including the United States military academies at West Point and Annapolis.

His publications include measures to halt the horizontal and vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons and a proposal for an international treaty to protect nuclear facilities from acts of war.