"Version: 20160301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scientific background -- 2.1. Fundamental forces -- 2.2. Model of the atom -- 2.3. Isotopes -- 2.4. Stability -- 2.5. Half-life -- 2.6. Fission and fusion3. Technology -- 3.1. Reactor physics -- 3.2. Nuclear…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Recognizing the threat : origins of the NPT negotiations -- 1.1. Early nonproliferation proposals -- 1.2. Atoms for peace -- 1.3. The impact of the Irish resolution -- 1.4. The threat from new technologies -- 1.5. The multilateral nuclea…
"Version: 20170501"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The background -- 1.1. The physics -- 1.2. The Manhattan Project2. Nuclear fission -- 2.1. Energy release in fission -- 2.2. Chain reaction timescale -- 2.3. Temperature equivalent of fission fragments -- 2.4. A first glimpse …
"Version: 20160701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Foreword -- 1. My up-close experience -- 2. The United States and Great Britain in World War II -- 3. The physics of fission -- 4. Nazi Germany's failed program -- 5. More bomb physics -- 6. Centrifuges and proliferation : India and Pakistan -- 7. Israel, North Korea and Iran -- 8. Scorpions in a bottle -- 9. L…