| Description |
xxiv, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: hell on Earth -- The buildup (or, how we got here) -- The first 24 minutes -- The next 24 minutes -- The next (and final) 24 minutes -- The next 24 months and beyond (or, where we are headed after a nuclear exchange) |
| Summary |
"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking clock scenario, based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons; created the response plans; and been responsible for those decisions should they need to have been made. Nuclear War: A Scenario is unlike any other book in its depth and urgency"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Nuclear warfare -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Nuclear crisis control -- United States.
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy -- United States.
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Military policy.
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Military policy |
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Military readiness |
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Nuclear crisis control |
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Nuclear warfare -- Forecasting |
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Nuclear weapons -- Government policy |
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United States -- Military policy.
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United States -- Defenses.
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| ISBN |
9780593476093 |
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0593476093 |
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