The twilight of the bombs recent challenges, new dangers, and the prospects for a world without nuclear weapons Richard Rhodes

By: Language: English Publication details: New York Alfred A. Knopf 2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 366 pISBN:
  • 0307267547 (alk. paper)
  • 978-0-307-26754-2 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): 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.
Item type: monograph
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"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.

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.

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