Atom Projects

This book is a collection of personal memories about the people who participated in the USSR atomic project — Landau, Alikhanov, Pomeranchuk, Alikhanian, Migdal Jr., Gribov, Zeldovich, Sakharov, Kurchatov, Vannikov, Eldian. As the author is the only living person who was involved in the project, these personal recollections are interesting and unique for a broad audience who has been unfamiliar with the details so far.

Contents:

• The Beginning of WW2
• On the Way to A-Bomb
• German Atomic Project
• Soviet Atomic Project
• Soviet H Bomb
• Why USSR Needed Nuclear Bombs
• Main Reasons for the Chernobyl Disaster
• A Story of an Accident on a Soviet Submarine (with Happy End)
• How I Became a Theoretical Physicist
• How I Prevented a Nuclear Accident at ITEP
• Nuclear Reactors and Politics
• Heisenberg Visits Bohr in 1941
• The Attitude of Soviet Physicists towards the Soviet Nuclear Project
• An Outlook for the Future

Readership: Scientists and students who are interested in physics and history of science.
Atomic Projects;Landau;Hydrogen Bombs0