TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siracusa,Joseph M.
AU  - Palazoğlu,Ahmet
TI  - Nuclear weapons [electronic resource]
T2  - Chemical industries
AV  - TP155.75 
U1  - 623.45119 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford 
PB  - Oxford University Press 
KW  - History
KW  - International Relations
KW  - Nuclear arms control
KW  - Nuclear Weapons
KW  - Nuclear Non-proliferation
KW  - Nuclear Terrorism
KW  - SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the Bomb is here to stay. This Very Short Introduction reveals why. The history, and politics of the bomb are explained: from the technology of nuclear weapons, to the revolutionary implications of the H-bomb, and the politics of nuclear deterrence. The issues are set against a backdrop of the changing international landscape, from the early days of development, through the Cold War, to the present-day controversy of George W. Bush's National Missile Defence, and the threat and role of nuclear weapons in the so-called Age of Terror. --From publisher's description

ER  -