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After the war the cold war with the soviet union resulted in a nuclear arms race
He continues with the aftermath of excessive cold war buildup disastrous accidents at plants the tides of protest movements and... Read More
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Well lets just say for less than the cost of a carryout pizza you owe it to yourself to read this book
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- This product had a total of 161 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 16 2021.
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Olson writes that “the only way to safeguard human civilization is to eliminate all nuclear weapons from the earth
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The manhattan project story from a different perspective
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The reader sees how the discovery of plutonium extraction that can eventually become a nuclear weapon quickly went from scientific experimentation to creating a town in a barren section in eastern washington state for the sole purpose of developing and creating the components that become a nuclear bomb
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As the book continues past world war ii the nuclear arms race becomes a political hot button and olson considers all sides in the diplomatic negotiations that continue well into the 1980s and are still happening today
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The apocalypse factory does what only the best nonfiction books do it tells a story full of anticipation success and failure
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Yet as he details the nonmilitary dangers of the buildup of radioactive waste at plants unsolved are with us today although probably no world leader is crazy enough to use their power of first strike the proliferation of bombs makes actual use an eventuality in many scientists minds
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