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Arms Control
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Bill Clinton's nuclear policy
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China's nuclear bomb
Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Donald Rumsfeld
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Hibakusha
Hiroshima
IAEA
Iran's nuclear policy
Israeli nuclear weapons
Japan in World War Two
Japanese surrender
John F Kennedy nuclear policy
Joseph Stalin's nuclear policy
Kim Jong Il
Manhatten Project
Nagasaki
Nixon's nuclear policy
Nuclear deterrence
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear inequality
Nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Nuclear proliferation
Nuclear terrorism
Operation Mongoose
Pakistan nuclear weapons
Pershing II missiles
SALT I
SALT II
Suez Crisis
US Ful spectrum dominance
US nuclear threats
USA Iraq nuclear policy
USA North Korea nuclear policy
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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- ISBN 9780745324944
- Weight: 468g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2007
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The United States is the only country to have dropped the atomic bomb. Since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every US president has threatened nuclear war.
This concise history shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to bolster its imperial ambitions. Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains why atomic weapons were first built and used - and how the U.S. uses them today to preserve its global empire. Gerson reveals how and why the U.S. made more than twenty threats of nuclear attack during the Cold War - against Russia, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. He shows how such theats continued under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and George W. Bush.
The book concludes with an appeal for nuclear weapons abolition and an overview of the history of the anti-nuclear movement. Drawing from a wide range of sources, this fascinating and timely account shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.
This concise history shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to bolster its imperial ambitions. Leading nuclear specialist and peace campaigner Joseph Gerson explains why atomic weapons were first built and used - and how the U.S. uses them today to preserve its global empire. Gerson reveals how and why the U.S. made more than twenty threats of nuclear attack during the Cold War - against Russia, China, Vietnam, and the Middle East. He shows how such theats continued under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and George W. Bush.
The book concludes with an appeal for nuclear weapons abolition and an overview of the history of the anti-nuclear movement. Drawing from a wide range of sources, this fascinating and timely account shows how the U.S. has used nuclear weapons to dominate the world.
Dr. Joseph Gerson has served the American Friends Service committee since 1976 and is currently Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program for the AFSC in New England. He is the author of Empire and the Bomb (Pluto, 2007).
