A short history of nuclear folly

[mad scientists dithering Nazis lost nukes and catastrophic cover-ups]
Rudolph Herzog ; translated by Jefferson Chase
mad scientists dithering Nazis lost nukes and catastrophic cover-ups - 2013

"A blackly sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe."--Jacket flap.

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Main Author: Herzog, Rudolph
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : London : Melville House ; Turnaround [distributor], 2013.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index. 
505 0 |a After the bomb, the world's most dangerous invention -- The red bomb -- The myth of tactical nuclear war -- The radioactive cowboy, or How Alaska got the bomb -- Swords into plowshares -- The doomsday machine -- Flying reactors -- How safe is safe? -- Atomic Australia -- The deadly detours of nuclear medicine -- Broken arrows. 
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