A Tiny Sun
Tom Stevenson: Getting the Bomb, 24 February 2022
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by Fred Kaplan.
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £15, April 2021,978 1 9821 0729 1 Show More
by Fred Kaplan.
Simon and Schuster, 384 pp., £15, April 2021,
The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age
by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press.
Cornell, 180 pp., £23.99, June 2020,978 1 5017 4929 2 Show More
by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press.
Cornell, 180 pp., £23.99, June 2020,
“... To build a nuclear bomb you need uranium. That’s the easy part. Uranium ore is plentiful, but it isn’t very useful in its naturally occurring state. For bomb-making it must be enriched to increase the concentration of the isotope uranium-235. Weapons-grade uranium is around 90 per cent enriched, but at a pinch you can make do with a lesser grade, enriched to 50 per cent or so ... ”
