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

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

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non fiction

The twilight of the bombs

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Richard Rhodes

recent challenges, new dangers, and the prospects for a world without nuclear weapons

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

Prologue: A different country -- Pt 1., Following the Calutron trail -- 1. "President's Bush Frankenstein" -- 2. Cutting Saddam's sinews -- 3. True courage -- 4. Following the Calutron trailPt 2., Breakdown and reformation -- 5. The little suitcase -- 6. Many little monsters -- 7. Waiting for forty yearsPt 3., Coming in from the cold -- 8. Preventive defense -- 9. Leaving the Laager -- 10. A million and a trillion -- 11. Great leaders -- 12. The cornerstone of peace and stability -- 13. The dog ate my homeworkPt 4. An, intolerable threat to all humanity -- 14. regime change -- 15. The hard stare into the abyss -- 16. The twilight of the bombs