The Swords of Armageddon

Includes a complete technical glossary; descriptions of weapons physics; postwar technological innovations in fission weapons design; a history of American thermonuclear weaponry; individual warhead histories; a history and description of warhead arming and fusing techniques and equipment, plus three detailed appendices summarizing the objectives and results of U.S. nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962; warhead specifications and typical nuclear weapons accidents between 1950 and 1981.