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Samuel Cohen is a physicist who is known for inventing the neutron bomb. He got his physics degree from UCLA. In 1944 he worked on the Manhattan project with calculating how neutrons behaved in Fat Man. In the Vietnam War, Cohen argued that using small neutron bombs would end the war quickly and save many American lives, but politicians were not amenable to his ideas. During Reagan's presidency, Cohen claims to have convinced Reagan to make about a thousand neutron bombs. Like many of his claims, however (including those about neutron bomb proliferation and the use of Red Mercury for fusion weapons), it is not substantiated and is significantly at odds with the mainstream understanding of the situation.
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