Twilight of the Bombs | Richard Rhodes

Pulitzer-winning author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"," Dark Sun", and "Arsenals of Folly" completes his tetralogy on nuclear weapons with his new book, "The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons".
A single weapon profoundly shaped world history for most of a century. Its disappearance can have equally profound effects
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