Nuclear revenge of the Soviet Union. Book 2

The reader is proposed to work on the history of the atomic project of the USSR, which covers the path traveled by nuclear physics from the discovery of radioactivity by Beckerel to the creation of modern samples of a two -chamber hydrogen bomb, as well as the section of the path called post -Soviet when much of the previously created was destroyed. In this book, which is a second part of labor, the reader is a gallery of world -famous scientists who strengthened the national security of the country. Essays are presented about the most outstanding persons of the Soviet nuclear program: I. V. Kurchatov, Yu. B. Kharitone, Ya. B. Zeldovich, K. I. Shchelkina, I. K. Kikoin, A. M. Petrosyants, L. A. Artsimovich, L. D. Landau, A.P. Vinogradov, P. L. Kapitsa, E.P. Slavsky, B. L. Vannikov and L.P. Beria. The book contains many interesting episodes, situations related to dozens of leading scientists - creators of the atomic project. The application written by the veteran of the atomic project by N. F. Lazarev gives a picture of work and life (1945-1955) of a joint Soviet-German laboratory “A” in Sukhumi, created in the NKVD system to develop a centrifuge for separation of uranium isotopes and research stability plasma. This book is intended not only for specialists in the history of nuclear physics, but also to a wide circle of readers.