From his years at Los Alamos and the Nevada Test Site to his
meetings with nuclear arms experts in Moscow, former weapons
designer Stephen M. Younger has witnessed firsthand the making of
nuclear policy. With a deep understanding of both the technology
and the politics behind nuclear weapons, he guides us from the
Manhattan Project to the Cold War and into the present day,
illuminating how nuclear weapons fit into our globalized,
war-plagued world. Does the United States genuinely need a massive
stockpile in an era of precision bombs and missile defense? Under
what circumstances might we need nuclear weapons in the future? How
does the proliferation of weapons in the hands of other nations
affect our own nuclear policy?
With startling clarity, Younger reveals how weapons work, the
myths and realities of what happens after a nuclear explosion, and
how our nuclear policy evolved to what it is today. "The Bomb" is a
compelling call to debate, and to action, that no one can afford to
ignore.
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