A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY (WT)

A book on bizarre "mishaps" with nuclear technology...

Rudolph Herzog-01/28/2012 - 09:36-1
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Rudolph Herzog (author) for Galiani, a division of Kiepenheuer & Witsch
publication date: March 12th, 2012
English version: Melville House Publishing, New York
publication date: tbc

Description: 

An overview of the most irresponsible things that humans have done with nuclear technology, from accidentally dropping a Nagasaki-type bomb on a train conducter's house, implanting plutonium into patients' hearts, devising high-altitude nuclear weapons to kill enemy astronauts and shooting a John Wayne movie in a radioactive Canyon. Includes some of Rudolph Herzog's own childhood memories of the final period of the Cold War. He grew up in Germany - the country that strategists saw as the nuclear battleground for NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

German orginal Version "DER VERSTRAHLTE WESTERNHELD und anderer Irrsinn aus dem Atomzeitalter" will be available on Amazon. Watch this space: http://www.amazon.de/verstrahlte-Westernheld-anderer-Irrsinn-Atomzeitalt...