Rhodes, Richard
The Twilight of the Bombs : Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons - New York Vintage 2010 - x; 458p. 8.5x5.5 pb
The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.
ENG
9780307387417
Nuclear weapons
Arms race
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear disarmament
327.1747 / Rho
The Twilight of the Bombs : Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons - New York Vintage 2010 - x; 458p. 8.5x5.5 pb
The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.
ENG
9780307387417
Nuclear weapons
Arms race
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear disarmament
327.1747 / Rho