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Nuclear Weapons: Who's in Charge?

By Hugh Miall

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Nuclear Weapons: Who's in Charge?

By Hugh Miall

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Ever since the possibility of nuclear fission arose in the minds of the physicists of the 1930s, nuclear weapons seem to have had a momentum of their own. In charge of them, and driven by them, are the nuclear decision-makers. This book takes the reader behind the tests and deployments of bombs and missiles to reveal who takes the decisions to develop nuclear weapons and what kind of people they are. Ranging from the laboratories where 'Star Wars' weapons are being invented, to the Design Bureau where Soviet missiles are developed, to Mururoa Atoll, testing site of the French neutron bomb, to the lake-side compound in the Beijing, from which the modernisation of Chinese nuclear weapons is directed, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, where warheads for British nuclear weapons are designed, the author asks: who is in charge of nuclear weapons?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
167
Release Date:
1987-06-08
Publication Date:
1987-06-08
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0333446771
ISBN13:
9780333446775
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
236 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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