Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "Discussion in an Executive Session of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy about the possibility of the H-bomb, September 1949.… https://t.co/61oMz3DfHf"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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1. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 19 Dec 2018
  
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  I really like the idea of a railroad train as a thermonuclear delivery mechanism as an aside. It makes for some amusement trying to contemplate how that would work, exactly.pic.twitter.com/KHcMP1BLUj
  
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1. Joshua H. Pollack‏ @Joshua_Pollack 19 Dec 2018
  
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  Vaguely reminiscent of what the Einstein letter anticipated for delivery of the A-Bomb...
  
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1. Sinan Yilmaz‏ @sn4_ymz 19 Dec 2018
  
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  Your web page need more nukes
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1. EK3‏ @EK14MeV 19 Dec 2018
  
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  Infinite thermonuclear yields? There are limits to violent-intensity fission radiation delivery that triggers the extreme, ablative plasma compression in thermonuclear devices at 10^12-10^13 Pascals (aka billions of PSI).
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