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Armageddon Postponed
Theodore Caplow
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Hardback. Since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, tens of thousands of nuclear weapons manufactured by governments around the world. None have been used so far, and the absence of nuclear war among armed nations is a mystery. Caplow considers this and other questions in his study of nuclear weaponry. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.S. government invented nuclear explosives by splitting the atoms of heavy metals. Germany had already surrendered, but the United States and its allies remained at war with Japan. In the summer of 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was flattened by a single nuclear bomb. A second bombing occurred just a few days later, decimating the city of Nagasaki. These were the first nuclear weapons ever used in war. And - so far - they are the last. Since then, tens of thousands of nuclear ... Read more
In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.S. government invented nuclear explosives by splitting the atoms of heavy metals. Germany had already surrendered, but the United States and its allies remained at war with Japan. In the summer of 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was flattened by a single nuclear bomb. A second bombing occurred just a few days later, decimating the city of Nagasaki. These were the first nuclear weapons ever used in war. And - so far - they are the last. Since then, tens of thousands of nuclear ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761849902
SKU
V9780761849902
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About Theodore Caplow
Theodore Caplow, Commonwealth Professor of Sociology emeritus at the University of Virginia, is the author of Peace Games (1989) and Forbidden Wars (2007), as well as co-author of Sociologie Militaire (2000), Leviathan Transformed (2001), and Systems of War and Peace (1995, 2004).
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