The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context

by D. G. Beatrice Heuser and D.B.G. Heuser

Book Overview

This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since. Dr Heuser sets these events in their historical context and tackles key issues about the effect of nuclear weapons on modern attitudes to conflict, and on the ethics of warfare. Ducking nothing, she demystifies the subject, seeing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002KZN98I
• ISBN13: 9780582292901
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Theories on war--problematics of peace

On page 29 is list of 24 German cities that had been,in '43..."virtually destroyed". This short book offers some hope for 'sane' nuclear controls; in a world becoming increasing 'terroristic'.