Nuclear Nightmares

 

By Geoff Simons
December 2009
Legacy Publishing
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780955746383
317 pages
$37.50 paper original

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This is a devastatingly graphic text by an accomplished author of international renown.

It begins with the Hiroshima nightmare, then charts the horrors of nuclear contamination and accident, the terrorist threat, and nuclear wars that almost happened. Geoff Simons tjem describes the earthshaking nuclear-weapons crises across the globe, focusing on such dramatic and timely issues as the North Korean atomic bomb, Iran's nuclear ambitions, the Indian-Pakistan nuclear stand-off, British plans to update the Trident deterrent, and the US development of a new range of nuclear "bunker busters".

Themes are set in their historical context. Military coups d'etat and atomic sabre-rattling; law and the United Nations; the hypocrises and ploys of powerful states; the efforts of the peace movement - all are covered with full documentation and brisk authority.

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