Nuclear Weapons by Mark Wolverton - ISBN: 9780262543316
Paperback
Understand the Bomb: science, history, and the ever-present threat.

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    264 pages

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    22 February 2022

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Summary

A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.

Although the world’s attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are now fourteen thousand nuclear weapons in the hands of the nine declared nuclear powers. Even though the world survived the Cold War, we need to understand what it means to live with nuclea…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262543316
ISBN-10:0262543311
Author:Mark Wolverton
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:264
Release Date:22 February 2022
Weight:369g
Dimensions:178mm x 127mm
Series:The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
About The Author

Mark Wolverton

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.

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