Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear WeaponsThe final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can. |
Contents
A Different Country | 3 |
PART ONE FOLLOWING THE CALUTRON TRAIL | 13 |
President Bushs Frankenstein | 15 |
Cutting Saddams Sinews | 36 |
True Courage | 56 |
Following the Calutron Trail | 74 |
PART TWO BREAKDOWN AND REFORMATION | 103 |
The Little Suitcase | 105 |
Leaving the Laager | 198 |
A Million and a Trillion | 220 |
Great Leaders | 252 |
The Cornerstone of Peace and Stability | 267 |
The Dog Ate My Homework | 293 |
Regime Change | 321 |
The Hard Stare into the Abyss | 334 |
The Twilight of the Bombs | 360 |
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