Nuclear Weapons: Who’s in Charge? [electronic resource] / by Hugh Miall.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781349186792
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/22684
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1987.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1987.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 167 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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?
Konu
International relations.
Politics and war.
International Relations.
Military and Defence Studies.
Politics and war.
International Relations.
Military and Defence Studies.
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