The nuclear express : a political history of the bomb and its proliferation /

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Discusses the history of nuclear weapons and their proliferation since the discover of fission in 1938, covering the covert spread of technology around the world and post-Cold War geopolitical issues regarding the programs of countries such as Pakistan, China, and North Korea.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, Thomas C.
Otros Autores: Stillman, Danny B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Zenith Press, 2009.
Temas:
Geschichte.
Nuclear weapons > History.
Armes nucléaires > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Nuclear weapons
Kernwaffe
Proliferation > Militär
World politics > 1945-
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Big news: fission releases neutrons!
  • Los Alamos: a first, but not the last
  • The raids on Japan
  • The U.S.S.R. and the United Kingdom: unintended partners
  • First attempts at controls
  • France and Israel: the apprentices
  • China breaks the European cartel
  • Nuclear maturity comes to the little three
  • Struggling with the barn door
  • Changes of state in the Mideast and South Asia
  • South Africa
  • The Soviet Union
  • The once-nuclear Soviet republics
  • China's decade of nuclear transparency
  • The Fakirs: India, Pakistan, and North Korea
  • Fingerprints
  • Star and crescent rising
  • George's-Antoine Kurtz is alive and well
  • Why?

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