The Bomb: A New History
“Younger has provided an insightful guide, especially for the general reader, into today’s array of nuclear powers and their capabilities.”
—James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, former

    Director of Central Intelligence


In The Bomb, Stephen Younger, former Los Alamos weapons designer and author of Endangered Species, provides a new history of the making of nuclear policy and the creation of the most terrible weapons humankind has ever possessed. In an era when rogue nations like North Korean and Iran strive to create their own precarious weapons programs, Younger’s The Bomb provides much-needed background and insight for students, policy makers, and readers who wish to better understand the important issues involving nuclear weapons and national security.

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The Bomb: A New History
“Younger has provided an insightful guide, especially for the general reader, into today’s array of nuclear powers and their capabilities.”
—James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, former

    Director of Central Intelligence


In The Bomb, Stephen Younger, former Los Alamos weapons designer and author of Endangered Species, provides a new history of the making of nuclear policy and the creation of the most terrible weapons humankind has ever possessed. In an era when rogue nations like North Korean and Iran strive to create their own precarious weapons programs, Younger’s The Bomb provides much-needed background and insight for students, policy makers, and readers who wish to better understand the important issues involving nuclear weapons and national security.

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The Bomb: A New History

The Bomb: A New History

by Stephen M. Younger PhD
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The Bomb: A New History

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“Younger has provided an insightful guide, especially for the general reader, into today’s array of nuclear powers and their capabilities.”
—James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, former

    Director of Central Intelligence


In The Bomb, Stephen Younger, former Los Alamos weapons designer and author of Endangered Species, provides a new history of the making of nuclear policy and the creation of the most terrible weapons humankind has ever possessed. In an era when rogue nations like North Korean and Iran strive to create their own precarious weapons programs, Younger’s The Bomb provides much-needed background and insight for students, policy makers, and readers who wish to better understand the important issues involving nuclear weapons and national security.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061537202
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 01/05/2010
Pages: 238
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Stephen M. Younger is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He recently retired as a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was in charge of nuclear weapons research and development. From 2001 to 2004, he was director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense. He lives in Las Vegas.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Author's Note xii

Introduction: Why Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century? 1

1 A Short History of Nuclear Weapons 13

2 How Did We Arrive at the Theory of Mutually Assured Destruction? 45

3 Current Nuclear Arsenals 69

4 Targets and Targeting 98

5 Replacing Nuclear Weapons with Advanced Conventional Weapons 117

6 Nuclear Proliferation 133

7 Defense Against Nuclear Attack 156

8 Maintaining Our Nuclear Forces 174

9 The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-first Century 198

Index 221

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