There is the usual coverage and description of the Soviet design, test, and experiment, but also some good discussion about what the US weapons program was doing at this time for ultra high yield weapons.
In early 1962, one scientist at the Sandia lab reported to his colleagues about this sudden interest in superbombs, noting dryly that the Soviet detonation had “started some thinking in this country that there must be a good application for these things that has escaped our attention… the military would like to see the development of a few [very high-yield] bombs and would even feel good if a few were in the stockpile even though no known targets justify such weapons.”
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There is the usual coverage and description of the Soviet design, test, and experiment, but also some good discussion about what the US weapons program was doing at this time for ultra high yield weapons.
> In early 1962, one scientist at the Sandia lab reported to his colleagues about this sudden interest in superbombs, noting dryly that the Soviet detonation had “started some thinking in this country that there must be a good application for these things that has escaped our attention… the military would like to see the development of a few [very high-yield] bombs and would even feel good if a few were in the stockpile even though no known targets justify such weapons.”
lol
There is the usual coverage and description of the Soviet design, test, and experiment, but also some good discussion about what the US weapons program was doing at this time for ultra high yield weapons.
lol