A Short History Of Nuclear Folly : Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-Ups (9781612193304)

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, 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 Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating account of history's most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely-discussed nightmare of "Broken Arrows" (40 nuclear weapons lost during the Cold War) to "Operation Plowshare" (a proposal to use nuclear bombs for large engineering projects, such as a the construction of a second Panama Canal using 300 H-Bombs), Herzog focuses in on long-forgotten nuclear projects that nearly led to disaster. In an unprecedented people's history, Herzog digs deep into archives, interviews nuclear scientists, and collects dozens of rare photos. He explores the "accidental" drop of a Nagasaki-type bomb on a train conductor's home, the implanting of plutonium into patients' hearts, and the invention of wild tactical nukes, including weapons designed to kill enemy astronauts. Told in a riveting narrative voice, Herzog--the son of filmmaker Werner Herzog--also draws on childhood memories of the final period of the Cold War in Germany, the country once seen as the nuclear battleground for NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, and discusses evidence that Nazi scientists knew how to make atomic weaponry . . . and chose not to.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 252 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 20.32mm | 267g
• Publication date 19 Jun 2014
• Publisher Melville House Publishing
• Publication City/Country Brooklyn, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Translation
• Illustrations note 1 Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 1612193307
• ISBN13 9781612193304
• Bestsellers rank 641,496

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