During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.
The Cold War-era stockpiles were originally intended for a global conflict with the capitalist bloc. A significant portion ...
On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...