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Building the Bombs: A History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex
Building the Bombs A History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Author:Charles R. Loeber The Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) is a nationwide group of government-owned sites that is responsible for the design, development, production, modification, repair, assembly, disassembly, and testing of all nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile. The NWC has evolved since the beginning of the Manhattan Project in 1942 to meet national security o... more »bjectives. This book provides a high level summary of this story. It begins in 1905 with Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and his famous equation, E=mc^2, and ends in the year 2001 with a discussion of the post-Cold War challenges for the NWC.« less