Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the SuperweaponIt was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. |
Contents
I | |
The Gift of Destruction | |
The Plutonium Collector | |
Natures Secrets | |
II | |
The Man Who Ended | |
Einsteins Open Sesame | |
IV | |
Conceived in Fear | |
Devils Work | |
Destroyer of Worlds | |
V | |
The Hell Bomb | |
Khrushchevs Monsters | |
Strangeloves | |
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Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon P. D. Smith Limited preview - 2007 |
Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon P. D. Smith No preview available - 2007 |
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