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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons.

Arms race.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Nuclear disarmament.

Physical Description:

xii, 366 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-345) and index.

ISBN:

9780307267542

0307267547

OCLC:

489003134