Frenchman Flat The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs (Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transf

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Frenchman Flat The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs (Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation) | 43.16 MB

Title: Frenchman Flat The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs (Texts and Translations of Transcendence and Transformation)
Author: Jon Else
Category: Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Warfare, Other
Language: English | 480 str. Pages | ISBN: 9780674306950

Description:
The story of a single nuclear bomb's deep origins, brief life during the Cold War, and lasting environmental and political legacies-as a fresh path to consider the entire sweep of the American nuclear enterprise.
A timely book for unstable times, Frenchman Flat recounts the science, politics, and human experience of those who developed nuclear weapons, suffered the consequences of their testing, and fought for and against arms control between the 1940s and 1990s. The throughline of this vast, complex story is a 37-kiloton atomic bomb dubbed "Priscilla" that was exploded above a custom-built mini-civilization at Frenchman Flat, Nevada, in 1957. Jon Else uses Priscilla and the bombs that preceded and followed to highlight the terrifying ways we have considered to blow ourselves to bits with nuclear weapons, how near and often we came to self-annihilation, how we managed to avoid it, and what we did to the planet, and to our own bodies, in the process, from...

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