1. For more information on US scientists’ perceptions of the Sloika, see R. Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Simon & Schuster (1995), p. 524.
2. See, for example, G. Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller, Henry Holt & Co (2002).
3. Ref. 2, chap. 12.
4. Ref 1, chaps. 23, 24; K. Ford, Building the H Bomb: A Personal History, World Scientific (2015), chaps. 9–14.
5. H. Bethe, “Memorandum on the History of the Thermonuclear Program” (28 May 1952), documents NV0318420 and NV0311423, Nuclear Testing Archive, Las Vegas, NV;