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.
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Arms race.
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Nuclear nonproliferation.
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Nuclear disarmament.
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LC no. |
2010003901 |
ISBN |
0307267547 alkaline paper |
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9780307267542 alkaline paper |
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