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Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk, 1996, Volume 166, Number 2, Pages 201–205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3367/UFNr.0166.199602f.0201
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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

On the making of the Soviet hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb

Yu. B. Kharitona, V. B. Adamskiia, Yu. N. Smirnovb

a Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Federal Nuclear Center — All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics", Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region
b Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow
Abstract: The May 1991 issue of Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk (Physics-Uspekhi), devoted to the 70th birthday of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, included a translation of an article by D Hirsch and W Mathews, 'The H-bomb: Who Really Gave Away the Secret?' It was the Editors' hope that, prompted by this polemic and in many respects controversial publication, our physicists and nuclear weapons developers would speak out too. However, it is only now, five years later and with a number of formal restrictions lifted, that the Journal has received an article on the creation of the Soviet H-bomb written by Arzamas-16 (All-Union Research Institute of Experimental Physics) specialists (of whom Yu N Smirnov worked under A D Sakharov in the 1960s). The Editors are confident that this article will be of interest to our readers. What makes the article particularly authoritative is the co-authorship of Yulii Borisovich Khariton, a patriarch of national nuclear physicists. His brilliant debut dating back to the 1920s was made in the N N Semyonov group and at the famous Cavendsh Laboratory (then under E Rutherford); from 1946 to 1992 Yu B Khariton was a permanent scientific leader of the Arzamas-16 Nuclear Weapons Centre. It is primarily to I V Kurchatov and Yu B Khariton that we owe the creation of our nuclear weapons which laid the groundwork for the country's powerful defence potential. Editorial Board.
Received: January 1, 1996
English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 1996, Volume 39, Issue 2, Pages 185–189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1070/PU1996v039n02ABEH000134
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Document Type: Article
PACS: 01.65.+g
Language: Russian


Citation: Yu. B. Khariton, V. B. Adamskii, Yu. N. Smirnov, “On the making of the Soviet hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb”, UFN, 166:2 (1996), 201–205; Phys. Usp., 39:2 (1996), 185–189
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