Samuel t cohen biography sample

American physicist Samuel T. Coheninvented the miniature nuclear weapon known as the neutron bomb, intended not for large-scale obliteration of cities like other nuclear weapons, but for smaller-scale warfare.

Cohen studied at UCLA and MIT, and worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, where his assignments included calculating neutron densities for "Fat Man", the atomic bomb that killed between 40, and 75, people when it was dropped on Nagasaki.

He spent his entire post-war career with the RAND Corporation, where he invariably did his calculations with a slide rule, usually the one his father gave him when he was fifteen years old.

He said he conceived of the neutron bomb after visiting Seoul in , while that city was largely in ruins following the Korean War.

First proposed in and technically titled the W70 tactical nuclear warhead, the neutron bomb offers a blast and heat wave about one-tenth that of a "normal" nuclear bomb, with an