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The nuclear express : a political history of the bomb and its proliferation /
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.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
Zenith Press,
2009.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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?