Abstract
In postwar years, developments in nuclear weapons design advanced rapidly, culminating with the deployment of so called fusion weapons or “hydrogen bombs.” At the same time, political efforts to control the spread of nuclear weapons and technology met with mixed success. This brief chapter describes these legacies of the Manhattan Project, including a survey of current global nuclear weapons deployments.
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Reed, B.C. (2019). The Legacy of Manhattan. In: The History and Science of the Manhattan Project. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58175-9_10
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