"From Berkeley to Berlin explores how the United States had the wherewithal to stand up to Khrushchev's attempts to expand Soviet influence around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

Clouds over Berlin -- The discovery that started it all -- The super and the onset of the thermonuclear age -- Project RAND, the AEC, and the Russians -- The GAC rejects the classic super -- Computers and the new super -- The second laboratory -- The legacies of Lawrence, von Neumann, and Wheeler -- An inauspicious start -- Hitting rock bottom -- The upstarts take over -- Hydrotests, hydrocodes, and a national strategy -- First the flute and then the robin -- The Navy gets a warhead for a missile -- From Berlin back to Berkeley.