Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

by William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer

The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)--weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation--through a series of comparative case studies across the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503637654
• ISBN13: 9781503637658
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"