Life and times of the atomic bomb : nuclear weapons and the transformation of warfare /
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New York :
Routledge,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Chain Reactions: 1. The science and the scientists, 1895-1933; 2. The first nuclear arms race, 1933-1942
- Part II. Rapid Assembly: 3. "One grand final exam day..." 1943-1945; 4. "I am become death"
- Part III. Two Scorpions in a Bottle: 5. Wasting assets, 1945-1950; 6. The cross of iron 1950-1962
- Part IV. "We All Breathe the Same Air": 7. "Solution unsatisfactory"; 8. ANADYR
- Part V. The Weapon of the Weak: 9. The politics of parity; 10. Sweet dreams and suicide machines
- Epilogue.