The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation

The Nuclear Express; A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Schwartzberg, Phil [Meridian Mapping] (Maps) (illustrator). Presumed first edition/first printing. viii, 392 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Glossary. Appendices (including Chronology). Index. Bookplate inscribed/signed by both authors on fep. Short, handwritten note from Stillman laid in. Thomas C. Reed was a former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Secretary of the Air Force under presidents Ford and Carter, and was a Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy. Danny B. Stillman was a physicist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory with decades of experience in nuclear weapon design, diagnostics, and testing. For more than a decade, Stillman directed the Los Alamos Technical Intelligence Division and upon completion of that assignment he was awarded the Intelligence Community Seal Medal. This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors' examination of post-Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese sponsorship of the Pakistani program is eye opening. The reckless "nuclear weapons programs for sale" exporting of technology by Pakistan is truly chilling as is the on again off again North Korean nuclear weapons program. The authors bring together decades of experience at both the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Artikel-Nr. 63641

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