The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons Audiobook (Free)

The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative from the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age.

The past two decades have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons significantly. With outstanding depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes apparent the way the five first nuclear powers-Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and specifically the United States-have struggled with new realities..READING MORE approximately The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Problems, New Dangers, as well as the Potential customers for a global Without Nuclear Weapons He displays us the way the stage was place for another tragic war when Iraq secretly destroyed its nuclear infrastructure and reveals the true reasons George W. Bush thought we would fight another war in Iraq. We see how the efforts of U.S. weapons labs laid the groundwork for nuclear loan consolidation in the former Soviet Union, how and why South Africa secretly built and then demolished a little nuclear arsenal, and exactly how Jimmy Carter’s personal diplomacy prevented another Korean Battle.

We also see how the present day represents a nuclear turning point and what hope exists for our potential. Rhodes assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism and will be offering advice on how our complicated interactions with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, suggesting what might make it possible.

Powerful and persuasive, The Twilight of the Bombs can be an important work of contemporary history.