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Weapons of Mass Destruction: Specters of the Nuclear Age |
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81-Page Historical Narrative and 137 Original Photographs by Martin Miller |
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Foreword by Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
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Schiffer Publishing, Ltd 2017 |
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| The Nuclear Age properly began with the discovery of the nucleus by Ernest Rutherford in 1911, but its impact on civilization began with the use of atomic bombs against Japan in World War II. The development of atomic bombs forever changed the world. From having a single bomb immediately after the Nagasaki attack, the United States would go on to build some 70,000 nuclear bombs over the course of the Cold War. The colossal brinksmanship with the Soviet Union threatened each country’s own people. Why were so many bombs thought to be necessary? How did the infrastructure come about to enable the delicate business of building and deploying so many bombs? This book answers these questions and more and shows in the author's high resolution photographs the full flowering of the warheads and delivery systems of the nuclear age in chilling detail. |
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ISBN 978-0-7643-5440-3 | 224 pages | Hard Cover | 12” x 9.25” | $45 |
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