Morland — may refer to: Surnames Sir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet (1625–1695), notable English diplomat, spy, inventor, and mathematician Thomas Morland (1865–1925), British World War I general George Morland (1763–1804), English painter Howard Morland (b.… … Wikipedia
Teller–Ulam design — The basics of the Teller–Ulam design. Radiation from a primary fission bomb compresses a secondary section containing both fission and fusion fuel. The compressed secondary is heated from within by a second fission explosion. The Teller–Ulam… … Wikipedia
Teller-Ulam design — The Teller–Ulam design is a nuclear weapon design which is used in megaton range thermonuclear weapons, and is more colloquially referred to as the secret of the hydrogen bomb . It is named after two of its chief contributors, Hungarian born… … Wikipedia
Prior restraint — is a legal term referring to a government s actions that prevent materials from being published. Censorship that requires a person to seek governmental permission in the form of a license or imprimatur before publishing anything constitutes prior … Wikipedia
History of the Teller–Ulam design — This article chronicles the history and origins of the Teller Ulam design, the technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as the hydrogen bomb. HistoryTeller s Super The idea of using the energy from a fission device to… … Wikipedia
Nuclear weapons in popular culture — A nuclear fireball lights up the night in a United States nuclear test. Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture,[1] to the extent that the decades of the … Wikipedia
United States v. The Progressive — United States of America v. Progressive, Inc., Erwin Knoll, Samuel Day, Jr., and Howard Morland is the name of a lawsuit against the magazine The Progressive by the U.S. government (specifically the United States Department of Energy) in 1979. A… … Wikipedia
Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… … Wikipedia
W88 — The W88 is a United States thermonuclear warhead, with an estimated yield of 475 kiloton (kt), and is small enough to fit on MIRVed missiles. The W88 was designed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1970s. In 1999 the director of Los… … Wikipedia
The Progressive — is an American monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced leftist perspective. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much… … Wikipedia
