Nuclear Fallacies: How We Have Been Misguided Since Hiroshima
- ISBN-10
- 0773505865
- ISBN-13
- 9780773505865
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 152
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
- Author
- Robert W. Malcolmson
Description
The world changed irrevocably after Hiroshima, in ways we are only now beginning to understand. Our perceptions of life have been dramatically altered. The polemics of various factions around the nuclear issue often serve only to obscure further the realities of life in the nuclear age.
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- 1985-06-01
- 152 pages
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