The Doomsday Lobby: Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteros
- ISBN-10
- 0441966845
- ISBN-13
- 9780441966844
- Category
- Science and state
- Pages
- 205
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- James T. Bennett
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