Books About ICBMs and Nuclear Weapons
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| Now It Can Be Told : The Story of the Manhattan Project by Leslie R. Groves, Edward Teller. The secret history of the building of the first atomic bombs written by the project leaders. |
| On Thermonuclear War , by Herman Kahn. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Publication date: June 1978. Originally published in the 1960s, Dr. Kahn faces the grim reality of fighting and winning a nuclear war. In this book, which is based on his classified work at the Rand Corporation, he coins the phrase "the grateful dead" as well as starts the arguments which continue to this day. Now that the post-Cold War world is less stable than Kahn's two-superpower situation, if you want to know what the inner circle strategic debate is all about, read this book. |
| Encyclopedic coverage of U.S. nuclear weapons is provided by Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History , by James N. Gibson. |
| Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Emergent Threats in an Evolving Security Environment , by Brian Alexander, Alistair Millar is an excellent resource in its subject area. |
| The book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb , by Richard Rhodes is highly recommended as the best general history of the Manhattan Project. The book won a Pulitzer Prize. |
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