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    A nuclear family vacation : travels in the world of atomic weaponry / Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger.

    By: Hodge, NathanContributor(s): Weinberger, SharonMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by McMillan, 2008Description: viii, 324 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781596913783; 1596913789Subject(s): Nuclear weapons -- Popular works | Nuclear engineering -- Popular works | Nuclear nonproliferation -- Popular worksDDC classification: 623.4/5119 LOC classification: U264 | .H635 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
    Contents:
    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.
    Summary: A fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of the atomic era, from Los Alamos to Iran ... and everywhere in between.
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    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.

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