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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herzog, Rudolph
Other Authors: Chase, Jefferson
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY Melville House 2013
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Table of 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.