Atomic audit : the costs and consequences of U.S. nuclear weapons since 1940
(1998)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
355.8/ATOMIC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1998]
©1998
©1998
DESCRIPTION
xx, 680 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0815777744 (cloth), 0815777736 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Building the bomb -- Deploying the bomb -- Targeting and controlling the bomb -- Defending against the bomb -- Dismantling the bomb -- Nuclear waste management and environmental remediation -- Victims of the bomb -- The costs and consequences of nuclear secrecy -- Congressional oversight of the bomb -- The economic implications of nuclear weapons -- Strengthening atomic accountability