A short history of nuclear folly

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.

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Main Author: Herzog, Rudolph
Other Authors: Chase, Jefferson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY Melville House 2013
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505 0 |a 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. 
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