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The new nuclear danger: George W. Bush's military-industrial complex

By Helen , Caldicott

Book information

Publisher
New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton
ISBN
9781595586612, 159558661X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
441 kB (451072 bytes)
Pages
(L, 302 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Arms race--History--21st century;HISTORY--Military

Description

Caldicott reveals how arms dealers have generated their profits by exploiting and promoting America's current military crisis. Focusing on the Pentagon's resistance to nuclear disarmament, she details the Bush administration's debt to the arms industry, the military's use of America's renewed fear of terrorism, and the danger represented by the country's nuclear arsenal. 1. The tragedy of wasted opportunities -- 2. The reality of nuclear war -- 3. It's a mad, mad world : nuclear scientists and the Pentagon play with deadly gadgets -- 4. Corporate madness and the death merchants -- 5. Manhattan II -- 6. Star wars : the story of national missile defense systems -- 7. Space : the next American empire -- 8. Nuclear war in the Gulf and Kosovo -- 9. The Lockheed Martin Presidency and the star wars administration.

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