About Samuel T. Cohen
Samuel Theodore Cohen was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb. At RAND Corporation in 1950, his work on the intensity of fallout radiation first became public when his calculations were included as a special appendix in Samuel Glasstone's book The Effects of Atomic Weapons. In 1958, Cohen investigated a low-yield "clean" nuclear weapon and discovered that the "clean" bomb case thickness scales as the cube root of yield. Cohen's backing of investigations into these controversial ideas won him some media attention after many years of being ignored. He claimed that he was awarded a medal by Pope John Paul II in 1979 for his bid to reform modern warfare.
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