Vizgin, Vladimir P. (Editor)
RKhGI
Edition Details: Vol. 2. (In Russian)
Physical Details: 656 pp. illus.
Language: Russian
Description The second volume of the history of the Soviet nuclear weapons program covers the 1950s and the 1960s. Articles in six sections: “At the origins of Soviet nuclear weapons (new archival findings),” “Nuclear explosions for military-political and peaceful purposes,” “The struggle for banning nuclear weapons tests,” “The social and cultural aspects of the Atomic Program (on the phenomenon of the Atom Cult),” “People and institutions (the Atomic Program and the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University),” and “Photo archive of the Soviet Atomic Program.” Contributors include V. B. *Adamskii, L. B. *Al'tshuller, A. A. *Brish, G. A. *Gladkov, G. A. *Goncharov, Iu. N. *Smirnov, Iu. A. *Trutnev, V. *Klishin, A. *Vasil'ev, V. *Shustov, R. *Timerbaev, L. *Vinogradova, Iu. I. *Krivonosov, N. M. *Osipova, M. *Panasiuk, E. *Romanovskii, A. *Kessenikh, V. *Nasonov, S. *Romanov, and I. S. *Drovenikov.
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