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| | Product Details | | Author: | Joseph Cirincione | | Hardcover: | 224 pages | | Publisher: | Columbia University Press | | Publication Date: | January 30, 2007 | | ISBN: | 0231135106 | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 5.2 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 11 reviews |
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 Perfect Jul 06, 2008
Perfect history of nuclear weapons. I read this short book three times in the span of two months.
 A useful introduction to the subject May 30, 2008
This slim volume is a good introductory text to the history and politics of Nuclear Proliferation and the challenges that face today's non-proliferation. Cirincione's text is clearly written as an introduction to the subject, but he does the reader the favor of not dumbing down the policy aspects of proliferation any more than is necessary for a 157 page survey of the subject.
The opening chapters are an engaging history of "The Bomb" and attempts to control it, including main scientific and political players in the development of the nuclear weapon, sprinkled with just enough physics to carry the reader through the more nitty-gritty aspects of the non-proliferation agreements that are discussed later in the book.
The rest of the book discussed the theories behind the motivations of proliferation and non-proliferation as well as the challenges that face the current non-proliferation regime. This section is alternately horrifying and hopeful, and the reader is left with many directions in which to think and research.
Well footnoted with a helpful glossary.
Comprehensive, Yet Succinct. Expansive, But Relevant Apr 05, 2008
Bomb Scare fills in the blank spaces that other books leave. It completes the picture of the history of nuclear weapons and brings into sharper focus their role in the future. It broadened my comprehension of the issues. And, Cirincione provides a balanced assessment of the interplay between policies, politics, and weapons.
Bruce A. Roth
www.daisyalliance.org
Author of No Time To Kill
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Pretty Good Nov 17, 2007
I read the book for entertainment... It was pretty informative. The only problem was the ink on the cover was a little smeared, not that it matters.
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons Nov 01, 2007
The book begins with a brief and accurate history. See "The making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes that won a Pulitzer price for a complete history.
Future generations will wonder...what were they thinking? Why did Russia and USA build tens of thousands of Atomic bombs? Why does Israel, France, England, India and Pakistan want hundreds of bombs? What were they thinking?
Lugar and Nunn should get hero medals for their work in the 90's in finding and safely eliminating nuclear bombs and materials. But that great project stalled in recent years when Bush/Chenney requested funds to design and build a new generation Nuclear bombs. What were they thinking?
Today, Russia and the USA has manned missiles ready to fire at each other. Why?
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