Documents relating to the Laser Research Program at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1962-1983.

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Documents relating to the Laser Research Program at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1962-1983.

Includes reports on laser research, an account of the early history and goals of the program, correspondence on the development and applications of high power lasers, and a paraphrased talk on isotope separation.

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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"The single event that triggered the establishment of Lawrence Livermore was detonation of the first Russian atomic bomb in 1949. Some American scientists were alarmed that the Soviets could advance quickly to the next step, the hydrogen bomb, with potential disaster for the West. Ernest Lawrence was a key participant in the World War II atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, a Nobel Laureate, and founder of the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. Edward Teller wa...

Kidder, R. E. (Ray Edward), 1923-

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