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Hi there.Does anybody know where I can get an English copy of the book “A Física dos Explosivos Nucleares” by Dalton G. Barroso?The original is in Portuguese and its title translates as “The Physics of Nuclear Explosives” .
jim hardy said:in this country there is agreement among book publishers to not make such information available to general public.
i doubt you'll find it here.
etudiant said:series by Arkin on the industry in the late 1980s.
greekoid said:Do you have Arkins full name please?
etudiant said:It is The Nuclear Weapons Data Book published by Ballinger Publishing in 1987.
It was a series of 7 volumes, with Thomas B Cochran and William M Arkin the lead authors.
etudiant said:it is difficult to understand where a Portuguese author would gather in depth expertise on nuclear explosions.
jim hardy said:I hope you're just building a Mr Fusion for your Flux Capacitor !
jim hardy said:as an interested civilian you'll enjoy John Mcphee's "the curve of binding energy" and Richard Rhodes' "dark sun"
latter has pictures of the actual hand drawn sketches Fuchs sent to Stalin.
former is tales of Taylor's work miniaturizing weapons - he got them from a B-29 bellyfull to a 4 inch artillery shell
old jim
jim hardy said:Thanks et.. those sound interesting !
Dyson is my hero, he's still going strong.
jim hardy said:you'll enjoy John Mcphee's "the curve of binding energy" and Richard Rhodes' "dark sun"
old jim
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