Sleepwalking to Armageddon : the threat of nuclear annihilation

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Label

Sleepwalking to Armageddon : the threat of nuclear annihilation

Title remainder

the threat of nuclear annihilation

Statement of responsibility

edited by Helen Caldicott

Title variation

Threat of nuclear annihilation

Contributor

• Caldicott, Helen

Editor

• Caldicott, Helen

Subject

• Nuclear disarmament
• Nuclear warfare
• Nuclear warfare -- Prevention
• Nuclear weapons
• World politics -- 21st century

Language

eng

Summary

With the world's attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, and stockpiles of aging weapons unsecured around the globe make a nuclear attack or a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility arguably the biggest threat facing humanity. Sleepwalking to Armageddon assembles the world's leading nuclear scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today. Chapters address the size and distribution of the current global nuclear arsenal, the history and politics of nuclear weapons, the culture of modern-day weapons labs, the militarization of space, and the dangers of combining artificial intelligence with nuclear weaponry, as well as a status report on enriched uranium and a shocking analysis of spending on nuclear weapons over the years

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

355.02/17

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

U263

LC item number

.S595 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography