The Bomb: A LifeBefore the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 8 | |
Born in Manhattan | 33 |
Its a Boy | 56 |
Decisions | 66 |
Genshi Bakudan | 82 |
Nuclear Giants and Ethical Infants | 106 |
On a Russian Scale | 126 |
Symbols not Weapons | 217 |
Testing Times | 237 |
To the Brink | 253 |
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 272 |
MidLife Crisis | 304 |
Fallout | 327 |
Notes | 353 |
Select Bibliography | 370 |
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