Project Orion: The Atomic Spac
Author(s): George Dyson
In 1957, the US government sponsored a project - codename "Orion" - to develop a 40,000-ton manned spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs. This book tells the story of the author's father, Freeman Dyson, a brillaint mathematician, and member of the "Orion" team.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.587
- : 06 June 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : George Dyson
- : Hardback
- : 629.4753072073
- : 368
- : illustrations
More About The Product
Preface - Bel Air; Sputnik; the world set free; Ulam's demon; general atomic; TRIGA; critical mass; QED; Lew Allen's balls; ARPA; Columbus; Noah's ark; free expansion of a gas; hotter than the sun, cooler than a bomb; C-4; Point Loma; engineers' dreams; Coca-Cola; Enceladus; deep space force; jackass flats; fallout; Huntsville; death of a project; 2001; the sun snarers; appendix -Project Orion technical reports, 1957-1965.
