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

by Samuel Meyer, William C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503636666
• ISBN13: 9781503636668
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"