A Nuclear Family Vacation. Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry - Hodge, Nathan & Sharon Weinberger
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In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the open road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Along the way, they soon realise that their travels are unearthing more questions than answers- why are nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger alert? Is there such a thing as a suitcase nuke? Is Iran really building the bomb? Together, they lift the lid on the uncertain role of nuclear weapons in the modern world and ask if the future is as terrifying as it seems. Criss-crossing ten US states and five countries, Hodge and Weinberger visit top-secret locations- from the Esfahan Uranium Conversion Facility in Iran to 'Site R', a bunker known as the 'Underground Pentagon', rumoured to be Vice-President Cheney's personal 'undisclosed location' on 9/11; and from the former Soviet Union's network of closed cities, housing secret nuclear sites, to the Marshall Islands, which the US has turned into a nuclear playground of epic scale. Their atomic road trip ...
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2008 Uitgever: London, Bloomsbury 324 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 074759757X ISBN-13: 9780747597575Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Hodge, Nathan & Sharon Weinberger] [Pagina's: 324] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London, Bloomsbury] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: A Nuclear Family Vacation. Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry]
