Hodge, Nathan.
A nuclear family vacation : travels in the world of atomic weaponry / Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger. - New York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by McMillan, 2008. - viii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index.
Prologue: how to be an Armageddon tourist -- Priscilla, Queen of the desert: a visit to the Nevada test site -- When knowledge is an endangered thing: travels through New Mexico's nuclear landscape -- Wicked things: exploring the future of nuclear weapons at Sandia and Livermore -- Home brew: uncovering the secrets of uranium production in Tennessee -- Where's the big board? : searching for strategery in Nebraska -- A cow runs through it: visiting missile silos in the Great Plains -- How we learned to stop worrying about the bomb in Pennsylvania: the rebirth of Site R, the government's secret nuclear bunker -- Rocket City, USA: Huntsville's space odyssey -- Fantasy island: vacationing in the Marshall Islands -- Take me to your one-eyed baby: promoting nuclear tourism in Kazakhstan -- Barbarians at the gate: in search of Russia's secret nuclear cities -- Got nukes? : nuclear junketeering in Iran -- Epilogue: next year in North Korea.
A fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of the atomic era, from Los Alamos to Iran ... and everywhere in between.
9781596913783 1596913789
2008002013
Nuclear weapons--Popular works.
Nuclear engineering--Popular works.
Nuclear nonproliferation--Popular works.
U264 / .H635 2008
623.4/5119
A nuclear family vacation : travels in the world of atomic weaponry / Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger. - New York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by McMillan, 2008. - viii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-304) and index.
Prologue: how to be an Armageddon tourist -- Priscilla, Queen of the desert: a visit to the Nevada test site -- When knowledge is an endangered thing: travels through New Mexico's nuclear landscape -- Wicked things: exploring the future of nuclear weapons at Sandia and Livermore -- Home brew: uncovering the secrets of uranium production in Tennessee -- Where's the big board? : searching for strategery in Nebraska -- A cow runs through it: visiting missile silos in the Great Plains -- How we learned to stop worrying about the bomb in Pennsylvania: the rebirth of Site R, the government's secret nuclear bunker -- Rocket City, USA: Huntsville's space odyssey -- Fantasy island: vacationing in the Marshall Islands -- Take me to your one-eyed baby: promoting nuclear tourism in Kazakhstan -- Barbarians at the gate: in search of Russia's secret nuclear cities -- Got nukes? : nuclear junketeering in Iran -- Epilogue: next year in North Korea.
A fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of the atomic era, from Los Alamos to Iran ... and everywhere in between.
9781596913783 1596913789
2008002013
Nuclear weapons--Popular works.
Nuclear engineering--Popular works.
Nuclear nonproliferation--Popular works.
U264 / .H635 2008
623.4/5119