| Description |
xiii, 301 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Robert Jay Lifton and / Richard Falk -- Acknowledgments -- Section 1. Imagining the real / Robert Jay Lifton -- 1. The world of the bomb -- 2. Nuclear illusions -- 3. Security - the ultimate psychologism -- 4. Is Hiroshima our text? -- 5. The bomb in our schools - and in Us -- 6. The image of extinction -- 7. A way of seeing -- 8. A break in the human chain -- 9. Nuclear fundamentalism -- 10. On numbing and feeling -- 11. Imagining the real -- Section 2. Political anatomy of nuclearism / Richard Falk -- 12. Taking stands -- 13. Nuclearizing security -- 14. Nuclear intentions -- 15. Emergent nuclearism -- 16. The Soviet factor : a "useful" enemy -- 17. Passivity - the enemy of peace -- 18. Constraining and liberating world pictures -- 19. Obtain the possible : demand the impossible -- Conclusion : In darkness - toward light / Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk -- Appendix Nuclear war's effect on the mind / Robert Jay Lifton and / Kai Erikson -- References -- Index |
| Analysis |
Nuclear warfare - Moral and ethical aspects |
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Nuclear warfare - Religious aspects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Author |
Falk, Richard A.
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| LC no. |
82070850 |
| ISBN |
0465032362 |
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0465032370 (paperback) |
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