The Twilight of the Bombs - Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Richard Rhodes

Vintage

2010

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-10: 0307736687

The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age, The Twilight of the Bombs is powerful, persuasive, and an essential work of contemporary history.
The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.