The nuclear express : a political history of the bomb and its proliferation / Thomas C. Reed and Danny B. Stillman

Author: Reed, Thomas C.
Published: Minneapolis : Zenith Press, 2009.
Physical Description: viii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Stillman, Danny B.

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Contents

Big news: fission releases neutrons! -- Los Alamos: a first, but not the last -- The raids on Japan -- The U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom: unintended partners -- First attempts at controls -- France and Israel: the apprentices -- China breaks the European cartel -- Nuclear maturity comes to the little three -- Struggling with the barn door -- Changes of state in the Mideast and South Asia -- South Africa -- The Soviet Union -- The once-nuclear Soviet republics -- China's decade of nuclear transparency -- The Fakirs: India, Pakistan, and North Korea -- Fingerprints -- Star and crescent rising -- George's-Antoine Kurtz is alive and well -- Why?

Subject(s)

Nuclear weapons—History

ISBN

9780760335024
0760335028

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

DuBois copy: Purchased with funds from the Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library; 20089.

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