Conveners
C2PL - Tuesday CEC Plenary Session - sponsored by Cryomech, Inc.
- Eric Marquardt (Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp)
Dr
Ray Radebaugh
(National Institute of Standards and Technology)
30/06/2015, 08:15
CEC-02 - Large-Scale Systems, Facilities, and Testing
Plenary
Research on the H-bomb (called the “super” during early work) began at a low level at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the early- to mid-1940s as part of the Manhattan Project. Theorist felt the thermonuclear reaction within liquid deuterium was the simplest and best understood at that time. On January 31, 1950, President Truman gave the order to pursue the H-bomb, which resulted in an...
