The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context

ISBN-10: 113815203X
ISBN-13: 9781138152038
Series: The Bomb
Pages: 248
Language: English
Published: 2016-09-01
Publisher: Routledge
Author: D. B. G. Heuser

Description

This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since. Dr Heuser sets these events in their historical context and tackles key issues about the effect of nuclear weapons on modern attitudes to conflict, and on the ethics of warfare. Ducking nothing, she demystifies the subject, seeing `the bomb' not as something unique and paralysing, but as an integral part of the strategic and moral context of our time. For a wide multidisciplinary and general readership.