Twilight of the Bombs: Latest Challenges, New Risks, and the Prospects for a World With out Nuclear Weapons

The ultimate quantity in Richard Rhodes’s prizewinning historical past of nuclear weapons provides the primary complete narrative of the challenges confronted within the post-Chilly Conflict age.

 

The previous twenty years have remodeled our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of information and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the 5 authentic nuclear powers–Russia, Nice Britain, France, China, and particularly the United States–have struggled with new realities. He reveals the true causes George W. Bush selected to combat a second warfare in Iraq, assesses the rising menace of nuclear terrorism, and provides recommendation on how our difficult relationships with North Korea and South Asia ought to evolve. Lastly, he imagines what a post-nuclear world would possibly seem like, as solely he can.