Nuclear Weapons: Who's in Charge?

by Hugh Miall

Ever since the possibility of nuclear fission arose in the minds of the physicists of the 1930s, nuclear weapons seem to have had a momentum of their own. In charge of them, and driven by them, are the nuclear decision-makers. This book takes the reader behind the tests and deployments of bombs and missiles to reveal who takes the decisions to develop nuclear weapons and what kind of people they are. Ranging from the laboratories where 'Star Wars'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333446763
• ISBN13: 9780333446768
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"