Subtitle from cover

"A blackly sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe."--Jacket flap

Translated from the German

After the bomb, the world's most dangerous invention -- Red bomb -- Myth of tactical nuclear war -- Radioactive cowboy, or How Alaska got the bomb -- Swords into plowshares -- Doomsday machine -- Flying reactors -- How safe is safe? -- Atomic Australia -- Deadly detours of nuclear medicine -- Broken arrows