Research Catalog

Title

The new nuclear danger : George W. Bush's military-industrial complex / Helen Caldicott.

Author

Caldicott, Helen

Publication

• New York : The New Press, 2002.
• ©2002

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Details

Additional Authors

New Press, publisher.

Description

xx, 263 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

Caldicott reveals how arms dealers have generated their profits by exploiting and promoting America's current military crisis. Focusing on the Pentagon;s resistance to nuclear disarmament, she details the Bush's administrations debt to the arms industry, the military's use of America's renewed fear of terrorism, and the danger represented by the country's nuclear arsenal.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Nuclear weapons > United States
• Arms race > History > 21st century
• Nuclear warfare
• World politics > 21st century
• Military-industrial complex > United States
• Nuclear Warfare
• nuclear wars
• Arms race
• Military-industrial complex
• Military policy
• Nuclear warfare
• Nuclear weapons
• World politics
• Kernwapenpolitiek
• Militair-industrieel complex
• United States > Military policy
• United States

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243) and index.

Contents

The tragedy of wasted opportunities -- 2. The reality of nuclear war -- 3. It's a mad, mad world : nuclear scientists and the Pentagon play with deadly gadgets -- 4. Corporate madness and the death merchants -- 5. Manhattan II -- 6. Star wars : the story of national missile defense systems -- 7. Space : the next American empire -- 8. Nuclear war in the Gulf and Kosovo -- 9. The Lockheed Martin Presidency and the star wars administration.

ISBN

• 1565847407
• 9781565847408

LCCN

2001055806

OCLC

• ocm48383598
• 48383598
• SCSB-1249570

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library