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Author Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

Title The twilight of the bombs : recent challenges, new dangers, and the prospects for a world without nuclear weapons / Richard Rhodes
Edition First edition
Published New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

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Description xii, 366 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Part 1. Following the Calutron Trail: "President Bush's Frankenstein" ; Cutting Saddam's sinews ; True courage ; Following the Calutron Trail -- Part 2. Breakdown and reformation: The little suitcase ; Many little monsters ; Waiting forty years -- Part 3. Coming in from the Cold: Preventive defense ; Leaving the Laager ; A million and a trillion ; Great leaders ; The cornerstone of peace and stability ; The dog ate my homework -- Part 4. An intolerable threat to all humanity: Regime change ; The hard stare into the abyss ; The twilight of the bombs
Summary This culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age from the second war in Iraq to the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, from the changing roles of the five original nuclear powers to our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia. Finally, Rhodes imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, suggesting what might make it possible
Notes "This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-345) and index
Subject Nuclear weapons.
Arms race.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Nuclear disarmament.
LC no. 2010003901
ISBN 0307267547 alkaline paper
9780307267542 alkaline paper