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Book

A short history of nuclear folly : [mad scientists, dithering Nazis, lost nukes, and catastrophic cover-ups]

Call Number

  • 363.1799 H5829 (CEN)

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Languages

Translated from the German.

Publication Information

Brooklyn : Melville House, c2013.

Physical Description

252 p. : bill. ; 28 cm.

Summary

"A blackly sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe"--Jacket flap.

Notes

Subtitle from cover.

"Originally published in German as Der verstrahlte Westernheld und anderer Irrsinn aus dem Atomzeitalter by Rudoph Herzog"--T.p. verso.

Contents

  • After the bomb, the world's most dangerous invention
  • The red bomb
  • The myth of tactical nuclear war
  • The radioactive cowboy, or How Alaska got the bomb
  • Swords into plowshares
  • The doomsday machine
  • Flying reactors
  • How safe is safe?
  • Atomic Australia
  • The deadly detours of nuclear medicine
  • Broken arrows.

Subjects

Added Authors

Jefferson S Chase