Countdown The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
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Sarah Scoles
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- 29 februari 2024
- 272 pagina's
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A riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape and its future.
The average person thinks about nuclear weapons less than they did during the mid-20th century. Yet, we live in a time when nuclear culture is more important than it has been since the Cold War as experts say we're closer to a nuclear catastrophe now than we were at the height of that conflict. Conversations surrounding weapons of mass destruction are generally discussed in past tense (as in Chernobyl) or sometimes as a future problem that's not yet upon us and may never be (as with the speculation about North Korea's nuclear capabilities). In Thermo, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers the shocking reality of our current nuclear age.
Drawing from years of on the ground reporting, from atomic bases to witnessing test explosions firsthand, Scoles challenges the comforting idea that having nuclear weapons keeps us safe, through the threat of "mutually-assured destruction." Rather, she deftly lays out the current nuclear apparatus in the United States, taking readers beyond the news headlines and policy speak to reveal how far nuclear technology has come, who the true decision-makers and gatekeepers are, and how the current generation of nuclear physicists have come to think about WMEs and a society that has the power to use them.
Through a sharp, surprising and undoubtedly urgent narrative, Scoles brings us out of the Cold War and into the present, opening readers eyes to the true nature of nuclear weapons while also giving us the needed context to understand the magnitude of our abilities, for now and for the future.
The average person thinks about nuclear weapons less than they did during the mid-20th century. Yet, we live in a time when nuclear culture is more important than it has been since the Cold War as experts say we're closer to a nuclear catastrophe now than we were at the height of that conflict. Conversations surrounding weapons of mass destruction are generally discussed in past tense (as in Chernobyl) or sometimes as a future problem that's not yet upon us and may never be (as with the speculation about North Korea's nuclear capabilities). In Thermo, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers the shocking reality of our current nuclear age.
Drawing from years of on the ground reporting, from atomic bases to witnessing test explosions firsthand, Scoles challenges the comforting idea that having nuclear weapons keeps us safe, through the threat of "mutually-assured destruction." Rather, she deftly lays out the current nuclear apparatus in the United States, taking readers beyond the news headlines and policy speak to reveal how far nuclear technology has come, who the true decision-makers and gatekeepers are, and how the current generation of nuclear physicists have come to think about WMEs and a society that has the power to use them.
Through a sharp, surprising and undoubtedly urgent narrative, Scoles brings us out of the Cold War and into the present, opening readers eyes to the true nature of nuclear weapons while also giving us the needed context to understand the magnitude of our abilities, for now and for the future.
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