Building a Better Bomb: Reflections on the Atomic Bomb, the Hydrogen Bomb, and the Neutron Bomb

Daniel Ellsberg

doi:10.1017/S155746600900847X

Building a Better Bomb: Reflections on the Atomic Bomb, the Hydrogen Bomb, and the Neutron Bomb

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

Daniel Ellsberg

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It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought was that I knew exactly what that bomb was. It was the U-235 bomb we had discussed in school and written papers about, the previous fall.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 32 , August 2009 , e1

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