Name: Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Author: Richard Rhodes
ISBN: 9780307267863

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FL-0079E.V.

RHODES, Richard

Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race

2007

1. History 2. The Nuclear Age

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Richard Rhodes Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race Overview A book about the nuclear arms race could reasonably begin at Los Alamos, or in the Oval Office, or with a count of warheads. This one begins on a Saturday morning in April 1986 in a forest outside Minsk, with alarms going off at the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences and a physicist named Stanislav Shushkevich trying to work out why there is radiation on the crocuses. That is not scene-setting, though the reasons are more the reader’s…

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Accession:FL-0079

ISBN-13:9780307267863

Published:2007

Language:en

Shelved under:History, The Nuclear Age

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