Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation

Cornell University Press (2004)
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The author explores how the US government has underestimated the damage caused by nuclear weapons, leading it to build far more - and far more destructive - warheads than are needed for war-planning purposes. She explores how this could have happened and the consequences for defense policy.

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