Death's Twilight Kingdom: The Secret World of U.S. Nuclear Weapon 'Design Data

By Yogi Shan

Book Overview

Subtitled: Volume 1: The Secret World of U.S. Nuclear Weapon 'Design Data' Latest edition: 4th edition, Version 4.0, July 2, 2019.*Thoroughly* revised and improved, compared to Version 2.0 See the stellar review by a buyer on the amazon.co.uk page of this book.Over 570 pages of very detailed information on A-Bomb and H-Bomb nuclear weapon design Except for the detailed technical data, it's written in an easily understood, "gonzo" free-form style (which apparently some individual amazon.com readers who reviewed it didn't like )Some of the chapters: Inside the Black World of "Atomic Weapon Data"Zen and the Art of Atomic Weapons DesignKnown Weights of A-Bomb Plutonium and Oralloy Weapon CoresConfessions of the High Priest of Thermonuclear AnnihilationClassified "Restricted Data - Category Sigma 1"The Light at the End of the LabyrinthApocalypse Wow The Long Shadow of the "Demon Core" The Neutron BombThey spent $9 trillion (in 1996 dollars) to make the U.S. the first, and a well-armed, nuclear state. Now you can see for yourself what all the secrecy was about atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs (nuclear weapons).In incredible detail covers the design, functionality, manufacture, secrecy, and history of all U.S. nuclear weapons.Heavily annotated, with a 50 page bibliography, and listings of 100's of declassified U.S. Patents This book will blow your mind with all the "secrets" exposed. I count over 300 *separate* items of "Restricted Data"/classified Secret "Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information". With many pictures and figures, and including two mistakenly declassified H-bomb diagrams, and a huge number of pieces of information The U.S. Department of Energy must be shaking in its boots...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511674822
• ISBN13: 9781511674829
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"