Making The Russian Bomb

From Stalin To Yeltsin
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-00939-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

The Natural Resources Defense Council once again provides the definitive account of the current status of Russian nuclear weapons. Taking advantage of previously unavailable information the authors describe the origins, growth, and decline of the massive Soviet nuclear weapons production complex—the places involved in the recent headline-making epi

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cochran, Thomas B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- A Brief History of the Russian Bomb -- An Overview of the Stockpile and Complex -- Chelyabinsk-65/Mayak Chemical Combine -- Tomsk-7 and Krasnoyarsk-26 -- Nuclear Fuel Cycle Activities -- Radioactive Contamination from Nuclear-Powered Vessels -- Profiles of Key Figures in the Soviet/Russian Nuclear Program -- Flerov Letter to Stalin, April 1942 -- Plutonium and Tritium Production Estimates -- Nuclear-Powered Submarines, Surface Ships, and Icebreakers -- The Komsomolets Nuclear-Powered Submarine1 -- Accidents Involving Soviet/Russian Submarines, 1956–19941

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Thomas Cochran is senior staff scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, and director of NRDC's Nuclear Program. He initiated NRDC's Nuclear Weapons Databook Project. He also initiated a series of joint nuclear weapons verification projects with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. These include the Nuclear Test Ban Verification Project, which demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing seismic monitoring to verify a low-threshold test ban, and the Black Sea Experiment, which examined the utility of passive radiation detectors for verifying limits on sea-launched cruise missiles. He has served as a consultant to numerous government and non-government agencies on energy, nuclear nonproliferation, and nuclear reactor matters. He is currently a member of the Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Advisory Board and Environmental Management Advisory Board. Previously he served as a member of DOE's Energy Research Advisory Board, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on the Clean Up of Three Mile Island and the TMI Public Health Advisory Board.

Dr. Cochran is the author of The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor: An Environmental and Economic Critique (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1974); and co-editor/author of the Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume I: U.S. Nuclear Forces and Capabilities (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Press, 1984); Volume II: U.S. Nuclear Warhead Production (1987); Volume III: U.S. Nuclear Warhead Facility Profiles (1987); and Volume IV: Soviet Nuclear Weapons (1989). In addition, he has published numerous articles and working papers, including those in SIPRI Yearbook chapters, Arms Control Today, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has co-authored (with Dr. Norris) the 302article on Nuclear Weapons in the 1990 printing of The New Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition). Dr. Cochran received