Comments on: Trick question- Which nation built first successful hydrogen bomb? https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/19/trick-question-which-nation-built-first-successful-hydrogen-bomb/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/19/trick-question-which-nation-built-first-successful-hydrogen-bomb/#comment-21980 mcfly Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:45:08 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28493#comment-21980 I've read a bit...Heisenberg's War is a good book, even though the thesis (that Heisenberg deliberately delayed German weapon development, thus basically saving the world) has apparently been more or less abandoned as wishful thinking. Your post reminds me I need to read more. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is next. Sadly, of course, it's also a rather disturbing period, beginning with the ecological toll of testing, and progressing to the actual, horrific use of these devices as weapons of war. At the risk of sounding flipant (but not intending to be), I suppose it's true that compelling history is born when somebody, somewhere, has a really bad day. I’ve read a bit…Heisenberg’s War is a good book, even though the thesis (that Heisenberg deliberately delayed German weapon development, thus basically saving the world) has apparently been more or less abandoned as wishful thinking. Your post reminds me I need to read more. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is next.

Sadly, of course, it’s also a rather disturbing period, beginning with the ecological toll of testing, and progressing to the actual, horrific use of these devices as weapons of war.

At the risk of sounding flipant (but not intending to be), I suppose it’s true that compelling history is born when somebody, somewhere, has a really bad day.

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