The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

by Helen Caldicott

Overview

This revised edition includes a new introduction that outlines the costs of operation Iraqi Freedom, details the companies profiting from the war and subsequent reconstruction, and chronicles the rampant conflicts of interest among members of the Bush administration who also have a financial stake in weapons manufacturing. After eight printings in the original edition, The New Nuclear Danger remains a singularly persuasive antidote to war and its horrific costs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565848788
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x (d)

About the Author

The world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies’ Home Journal have named her one of the Most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century. In 2001 she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, which later became Beyond Nuclear, in Washington, D.C. The author of The New Nuclear Danger, War in Heaven (with Craig Eisendrath), Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, and Loving This Planet and the editor of Crisis Without End (all published by The New Press), she is currently president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org. She divides her time between Australia and the United States.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	ix
1.	The Tragedy of Wasted Opportunities	1
2.	The Reality of Nuclear War	7
3.	It's a Mad, Mad World: Nuclear Scientists and the Pentagon Play with Deadly Gadgets	13
4.	Corporate Madness and the Death Merchants	24
5.	Manhattan II	43
6.	Star Wars: The Story of National Missile Defense Systems	71
7.	Space: The Next American Empire	115
8.	Nuclear War in the Gulf and Kosovo	145
9.	The Lockheed Martin Presidency and the Star Wars Administration	162
Appendix A	Major U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Makers	189
Appendix B	U.S. Nuclear-Weapons Control Centers and Government Authorities	205
Appendix C	Locations of the Majority of Usable U.S. Nuclear Weapons	209
Appendix D	Major Antinuclear Organizations in the United States, Great Britain, and Russia	213
	Notes	227
	Index	245

Editorial Reviews

"A timely warning, at a critical moment in world history, of the horrible consequences of nuclear warfare."
—Walter Cronkite

"A meticulous, urgent, and shocking report on the current state and true nature of America's nuclear weapons program. . . . Chilling. . . . Harrowing. . . . Apocalyptic. . . . The time to take Caldicott’s measured and wise words to heart is now."
— Booklist

"Helen Caldicott has been my inspiration to speak out."
—Meryl Streep

From the Publisher

Caldicott (founder, Physicians for Social Responsibility) 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 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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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