Nuclear Weapons

ISBN-13: 9780262543316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

Mark Wolverton

Spis treści

Series Foreword vii
Preface ix
1 Introduction: The Big Difference 1
2 Dawn over Trinity: The Nuclear Age Begins 27
3 Taming the Nuclear Genie: New Hopes and Threats 61
4 The Brink: Close Calls and Nuclear Crises 89
5 Brighter Than the Sun: What Nuclear Weapons Do 125
6 Deterrence and Doomsday: Nuclear Theories and Treaties 145
7 The Ends of the World: Nuclear Weapons and Popular Culture 177
8 The Choice 211
Glossary 237
Notes 243
Further Reading 247
Index 253

O autorze

Mark Wolverton is a science writer and the author of Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space, A Life in Twilight: The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes. His journalism has appeared in WIRED, Nature, Undark, Scientific American, Air & Space Smithsonian, and other publications.